CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-24836

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Published: Apr 11, 2022 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.5 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

Nokogiri is an open source XML and HTML library for Ruby. Nokogiri < v1.13.4 contains an inefficient regular expression that is susceptible to excessive backtracking when attempting to detect encoding in HTML documents. Users are advised to upgrade to Nokogiri >= 1.13.4. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Weakness

The product uses a regular expression with an inefficient, possibly exponential worst-case computational complexity that consumes excessive CPU cycles.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Nokogiri Nokogiri * 1.13.4 (excluding)
Red Hat Satellite 6.12 for RHEL 8 RedHat rubygem-nokogiri-0:1.13.8-1.el8sat *
Red Hat Satellite 6.12 for RHEL 8 RedHat rubygem-nokogiri-0:1.13.8-1.el8sat *
Ruby-nokogiri Ubuntu bionic *
Ruby-nokogiri Ubuntu esm-apps/bionic *
Ruby-nokogiri Ubuntu esm-apps/focal *
Ruby-nokogiri Ubuntu esm-apps/jammy *
Ruby-nokogiri Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Ruby-nokogiri Ubuntu esm-infra-legacy/trusty *
Ruby-nokogiri Ubuntu focal *
Ruby-nokogiri Ubuntu impish *
Ruby-nokogiri Ubuntu jammy *
Ruby-nokogiri Ubuntu kinetic *
Ruby-nokogiri Ubuntu trusty *
Ruby-nokogiri Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Ruby-nokogiri Ubuntu upstream *
Ruby-nokogiri Ubuntu xenial *

Extended Description

	  Attackers can create crafted inputs that
	  intentionally cause the regular expression to use
	  excessive backtracking in a way that causes the CPU
	  consumption to spike.

Potential Mitigations

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