Nokogiri vulnerable to DoS while parsing XML entities · CVE-2013-6461 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

Nokogiri vulnerable to DoS while parsing XML entities

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 5, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jun 30, 2023

Package

nokogiri (RubyGems)

Affected versions

>= 1.5.0, < 1.5.11

>= 1.6.0, < 1.6.1

Patched versions

1.5.11

1.6.1

Description

Nokogiri gem 1.5.x and 1.6.x has DoS while parsing XML entities by failing to apply limits

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database

Nov 5, 2019

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 5, 2022

Reviewed Jun 9, 2023

Last updated Jun 30, 2023

Severity

Moderate

6.5

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H