HIGH 8.7 NVD
CVE-2021-47996
Nokogiri before 1.11.4 (CRuby implementation only, when the packaged/vendored libxml2 is used) bundles libxml2 2.9.10, which is affected by multiple vulnerabili
Nokogiri before 1.11.4 (CRuby implementation only, when the packaged/vendored libxml2 is used) bundles libxml2 2.9.10, which is affected by multiple vulnerabilities addressed in libxml2 2.9.12, including a memory leak in xmlSchemaValidateStream (CVE-2019-20388), a global buffer over-read in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal (CVE-2020-24977), a heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-2021-3517), and an out-of-bounds read (CVE-2021-3518). Processing crafted XML documents may lead to denial of service, information disclosure, or memory corruption.
References
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/commit/0e1a49c8907645d2e155f0d89d4d9895ac5112b5
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/commit/1098c30a040e72a4654968547f415be4e4c40fe7
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/commit/1358d157d0bd83be1dfe356a69213df9fac0b539
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/commit/50f06b3efb638efb0abd95dc62dca05ae67882c2
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/commit/7ffcd44d7e6c46704f8af0321d9314cd26e0e18a
This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.7 was published on 2026-08-25 via NVD.
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