The fork of org.cyberneko.html
used by Nokogiri (Rubygem) raises a java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
exception when parsing ill-formed HTML markup.
The maintainers have evaluated this as High Severity 7.5 (CVSS3.1).
Upgrade to >= 1.9.22.noko2
.
This vulnerability was reported by 이형관 (windshock).
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
The upstream library org.cyberneko.html
is no longer maintained. Nokogiri uses its own fork of this library located at https://github.com/sparklemotion/nekohtml and this CVE applies only to that fork. Other forks of nekohtml may have a similar vulnerability.