Nokogiri gem 1.5.x has Denial of Service via infinite loop when parsing XML documents

Description

Nokogiri gem 1.5.x has Denial of Service via infinite loop when parsing XML documents

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.1% · top 18% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.

Weakness

• while parsing XML documents
• CWE-776 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-776 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Ruby · Nokogiri gem

  • affected 1.5.x
  • affected 1.6.x

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

• RubyGemsnokogiriGHSA-62qp-3fxm-9wxf (opens in a new tab)

References (7)

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6460 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2013-6460 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2013-6460 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2013-6460 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/12/27/2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64513 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/90058 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisory GHSA-62qp-3fxm-9wxf (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 17:39 UTC.