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Improper authorization control for web services In nokogiri

Description

Nokogiri vulnerable to libxslt protection mechanism bypass A dependency of Nokogiri, libxslt through 1.1.33 allows bypass of a protection mechanism because callers of xsltCheckRead and xsltCheckWrite permit access even upon receiving a -1 error code. xsltCheckRead can return -1 for a crafted URL that is not actually invalid and is subsequently loaded.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem
Component
Affected version
Patched versions

1-10 of 27

10

References

1. https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/18922. https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/pull/18983. https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/commit/fe034aedcc59b566740567d621843731686676b94. https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html5. https://usn.ubuntu.com/3947-26. https://usn.ubuntu.com/3947-17. https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191017-00018. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/SK4YNISS22MJY22YX5I6V2U63QZAUEHA9. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/GCOAX2IHUMKCM3ILHTMGLHCDSBTLP2JU10. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/36TEYN37XCCKN2XUMRTBBW67BPNMSW4K11. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SK4YNISS22MJY22YX5I6V2U63QZAUEHA12. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GCOAX2IHUMKCM3ILHTMGLHCDSBTLP2JU13. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/36TEYN37XCCKN2XUMRTBBW67BPNMSW4K14. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/commit/e03553605b45c88f0b4b2980adfbbb8f6fca2fd615. https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/blob/f7aa3b0b29d6fe5fafe93dacd9b96b6b3d16b7ec/CHANGELOG.md?plain=1#L82616. https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/nokogiri/CVE-2019-11068.yml17. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00048.html18. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00052.html19. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00053.html20. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00025.html21. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00001.html22. http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/04/22/123. http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/04/23/5