CVE-2021-41098

HIGH

Nokogiri < 1.12.5 - XML External Entity Injection in SAX Parser on JRuby

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Nokogiri is a Rubygem providing HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader parsers with XPath and CSS selector support. In Nokogiri v1.12.4 and earlier, on JRuby only, the SAX parser resolves external entities by default. Users of Nokogiri on JRuby who parse untrusted documents using any of these classes are affected: Nokogiri::XML::SAX::Parse, Nokogiri::HTML4::SAX::Parser or its alias Nokogiri::HTML::SAX::Parser, Nokogiri::XML::SAX::PushParser, and Nokogiri::HTML4::SAX::PushParser or its alias Nokogiri::HTML::SAX::PushParser. JRuby users should upgrade to Nokogiri v1.12.5 or later to receive a patch for this issue. There are no workarounds available for v1.12.4 or earlier. CRuby users are not affected.

References (2)

Core 2

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0025
EPSS Percentile 48.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-611
Status published
Products (2)
nokogiri/nokogiri < 1.12.5
rubygems/nokogiri 0 - 1.12.5RubyGems
Published Sep 27, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026