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CVE-2026-79770

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 0.28% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS · Published 2026-08-25 · Last synced 2026-09-17

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Nokogiri versions prior to 1.19.3 are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) attacks due to flaws in the CSS selector tokenizer, which can be exploited through methods such as Node#css and Node#at_css. This vulnerability allows attackers to inject malicious CSS selectors, leading to potential service disruptions through exponential regex backtracking. Organizations using affected versions of Nokogiri should prioritize updating to version 1.19.3 or later to mitigate this risk.

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CVE
CVE-2026-79770
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
0.28%

Original NVD Description

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.

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