ADVISORIES
GEM
PLATFORM
SEVERITY
CVSS v3.x: 7.5 (High)
PATCHED VERSIONS
- >= 1.12.5
DESCRIPTION
Severity
The Nokogiri maintainers have evaluated this as High Severity 7.5 (CVSS3.0) for JRuby users. (This security advisory does not apply to CRuby users.)
Impact
In Nokogiri v1.12.4 and earlier, on JRuby only, the SAX parser resolves external entities by default.
Users of Nokogiri on JRuby who parse untrusted documents using any of these classes are affected:
- Nokogiri::XML::SAX::Parser
- Nokogiri::HTML4::SAX::Parser or its alias Nokogiri::HTML::SAX::Parser
- Nokogiri::XML::SAX::PushParser
- Nokogiri::HTML4::SAX::PushParser or its alias Nokogiri::HTML::SAX::PushParser
Mitigation
JRuby users should upgrade to Nokogiri v1.12.5 or later. There are no workarounds available for v1.12.4 or earlier.
CRuby users are not affected.