XML injection (XXE) In nokogiri
Description
Duplicate Advisory: Nokogiri updates packaged libxml2 to 2.13.6 to resolve CVE-2025-24928 and CVE-2024-56171
Duplicate Advisory
This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-vvfq-8hwr-qm4m. This link is maintained to preserve external references.
Original Description
Summary
Nokogiri v1.18.3 upgrades its dependency libxml2 to v2.13.6.
libxml2 v2.13.6 addresses:
CVE-2025-24928
described at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/847
CVE-2024-56171
described at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/828
Impact
CVE-2025-24928
Stack-buffer overflow is possible when reporting DTD validation errors if the input contains a long (~3kb) QName prefix.
CVE-2024-56171
Use-after-free is possible during validation against untrusted
XML Schemas (.xsd) and, potentially, validation of untrusted documents
against trusted Schemas if they make use of xsd:keyref in combination
with recursively defined types that have additional identity constraints.
Mitigation
Update Impact
Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.
Ecosystem | Package | Affected version | Patched versions |
|---|---|---|---|
 rubygems | 1.18.3 |
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