PT-2026-81359 · Rubygems · Nokogiri

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CVE-2026-79770

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Published

2026-05-06

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Updated

2026-08-25

CVSS v4.0

8.7

High

VectorAV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Nokogiri versions prior to 1.19.3
Description A regular expression denial of service exists in the CSS selector tokenizer, specifically affecting string-literal and identifier tokenization. Attackers can cause exponential regex backtracking, leading to a denial of service, by injecting adversarial CSS selectors into the Node#css, Node#at css, and Searchable#search methods.
Recommendations Update to version 1.19.3 or later.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-79770
GHSA-5JHF-FPP7-V2PV
GHSA-C4RQ-3M3G-8WGX

Affected Products

Nokogiri