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High · 8.2 CVE-2022-29181 EUVD-2022-5789GHSA-xh29-r2w5-wx8m

Improper Handling of Unexpected Data Type in Nokogiri

Published May 20, 2022 · Updated May 27, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Nokogiri is an open source XML and HTML library for Ruby. Nokogiri prior to version 1.13.6 does not type-check all inputs into the XML and HTML4 SAX parsers, allowing specially crafted untrusted inputs to cause illegal memory access errors (segfault) or reads from unrelated memory. Version 1.13.6 contains a patch for this issue. As a workaround, ensure the untrusted input is a `String` by calling `#to_s` or equivalent.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
sparklemotion nokogiri < 1.13.6 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 ruby-nokogiri 1.13.7+dfsg-1 —
Debian 13 ruby-nokogiri 1.13.7+dfsg-1 —
Debian 12 ruby-nokogiri 1.13.7+dfsg-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS ruby-nokogiri 1.13.1+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 USN-7659-1
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS ruby-nokogiri 1.10.7+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1~esm2 USN-7659-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Red Hat Satellite Utils 6 foreman +1 3.3.0.17-1.el8sat RHSA-2022:8506
Red Hat Satellite Capsule 6 foreman +1 3.3.0.17-1.el8sat RHSA-2022:8506
Red Hat Satellite Capsule 6 python-django +1 3.2.14-2.el8pc RHSA-2022:8506
Red Hat Satellite Capsule 6 rubygem-nokogiri 1.13.8-1.el8sat RHSA-2022:8506
Red Hat Satellite Capsule 6 rubygem-sinatra 1:2.2.0-1.el8sat RHSA-2022:8506
Red Hat Satellite 6 candlepin +1 4.1.15-1.el8sat RHSA-2022:8506
Red Hat Satellite 6 foreman +13 3.3.0.17-1.el8sat RHSA-2022:8506
Red Hat Satellite 6 python-django +1 3.2.14-2.el8pc RHSA-2022:8506
Red Hat Satellite 6 rubygem-git 1.11.0-1.el8sat RHSA-2022:8506
Red Hat Satellite 6 rubygem-nokogiri 1.13.8-1.el8sat RHSA-2022:8506
Red Hat Satellite 6 rubygem-rails-html-sanitizer 1.4.3-2.el8sat RHSA-2022:8506
Red Hat Satellite 6 rubygem-sinatra 1:2.2.0-1.el8sat RHSA-2022:8506
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP4 rubygem-nokogiri 1.8.5-150400.14.3.1 SUSE-SU-2022:4016-1
SLES 15 SP3 rubygem-nokogiri 1.8.5-150000.3.9.1 SUSE-SU-2022:4015-1
SLES 15 SP2 rubygem-nokogiri 1.8.5-150000.3.9.1 SUSE-SU-2022:4015-1
SLES 15 SP1 rubygem-nokogiri 1.8.5-150000.3.9.1 SUSE-SU-2022:4015-1
SLES 15 rubygem-nokogiri 1.8.5-150000.3.9.1 SUSE-SU-2022:4015-1
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 rubygem-nokogiri 1.6.1-5.6.1 SUSE-SU-2022:3890-1
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 rubygem-nokogiri 1.6.1-5.6.1 SUSE-SU-2022:3890-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed ruby3.2-rubygem-nokogiri 1.13.9-1.7 openSUSE-SU-2024:13165-1
openSUSE Tumbleweed rubygem-nokogiri 1.13.6-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:10356-1, openSUSE-SU-2025:14697-1, openSUSE-SU-2024:14174-1
openSUSE Leap 15.4 rubygem-nokogiri 1.8.5-150400.14.3.1 SUSE-SU-2022:4016-1
openSUSE Leap 15.3 rubygem-nokogiri 1.8.5-150000.3.9.1 SUSE-SU-2022:4015-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 ruby-nokogiri 1.13.6-r0 —
Alpine v3.23 ruby-nokogiri 1.13.6-r0 —
Alpine v3.22 ruby-nokogiri 1.13.6-r0 —
Alpine v3.21 ruby-nokogiri 1.13.6-r0 —
Alpine v3.20 ruby-nokogiri 1.13.6-r0 —
Show 4 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.19 ruby-nokogiri 1.13.6-r0 —
Alpine v3.18 ruby-nokogiri 1.13.6-r0 —
Alpine v3.17 ruby-nokogiri 1.13.6-r0 —
Alpine v3.16 ruby-nokogiri 1.13.6-r0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
RubyGems nokogiri < 1.13.6 1.13.6 GHSA-xh29-r2w5-wx8m

Advisories 12

References