CVE-2026-79770
Published:August 25, 2026
Updated:August 27, 2026
Nokogiri versions before 1.19.3 contain regular expression denial of service vulnerabilities in the CSS selector tokenizer affecting string-literal and identifier tokenization. Attackers can inject adversarial CSS selectors into methods like Node#css, Node#at_css, and Searchable#search to cause exponential regex backtracking and denial of service.
Affected Packages
https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=v1.4.4 <v1.19.3Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v1.19.3nokogiri (RUBY):
Affected version(s) >=1.0.0 <1.19.3Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 1.19.3Related Resources (3)
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Contact UsCVSS v4
Base Score:
8.7
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
NONE
Vulnerable System Integrity
NONE
Vulnerable System Availability
HIGH
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
7.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Weakness Type (CWE)
Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
EPSS
Base Score:
0.28