sparklemotion/nokogiri · Security
Nokogiri updates packaged libxslt to v1.1.43 to resolve multiple CVEs
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-mrxw-mxhj-p664
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 7.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
Description
Summary
Nokogiri v1.18.4 upgrades its dependency libxslt to v1.1.43.
libxslt v1.1.43 resolves:
- CVE-2025-24855: Fix use-after-free of XPath context node
- CVE-2024-55549: Fix UAF related to excluded namespaces
Impact
CVE-2025-24855
- "Use-after-free due to xsltEvalXPathStringNs leaking xpathCtxt->node"
- MITRE has rated this 7.8 High CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
- Upstream report: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/-/issues/128
- NVD entry: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24855
CVE-2024-55549
- "Use-after-free related to excluded result prefixes"
- MITRE has rated this 7.8 High CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
- Upstream report: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/-/issues/127
- NVD entry: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-55549
CWEs
- CWE-416 · Use After Free
- CWE-1395 · Dependency on Vulnerable Third-Party Component
References
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/security/advisories/GHSA-mrxw-mxhj-p664 ↗
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-55549 ↗
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24855 ↗
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/-/issues/127 ↗
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/-/issues/128 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mrxw-mxhj-p664 ↗