Rapid7 Vulnerability & Exploit Database

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2022-24836: Security patch for rubygem-nokogiri, rubygem18-nokogiri (ALAS-2022-1595)

Free InsightVM Trial No credit card necessary
Watch Demo See how it all works
Back to Search

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2022-24836: Security patch for rubygem-nokogiri, rubygem18-nokogiri (ALAS-2022-1595)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/11/2022
Created
06/14/2022
Added
06/10/2022
Modified
06/10/2022

Description

Nokogiri is an open source XML and HTML library for Ruby. Nokogiri `< v1.13.4` contains an inefficient regular expression that is susceptible to excessive backtracking when attempting to detect encoding in HTML documents. Users are advised to upgrade to Nokogiri `>= 1.13.4`. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade--rubygem18-nokogiri
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-rubygem-nokogiri

References

  • ALAS-2022-1595
  • CVE-2022-24836

insightVM

Advanced vulnerability management analytics and reporting.
Key Features
Free InsightVM Trial View All Features

With Rapid7 live dashboards, I have a clear view of all the assets on my network, which ones can be exploited, and what I need to do in order to reduce the risk in my environment in real-time. No other tool gives us that kind of value and insight.

– Scott Cheney, Manager of Information Security, Sierra View Medical Center

;