CVE-2026-79770: Nokogiri versions before 1.19.3 contain regular expression denial of service vulnerabilities in the CSS selector tokeniz
Summary
Nokogiri versions before 1.19.3 have a ReDoS vulnerability (regular expression denial of service, where carefully crafted input causes a regex pattern to take exponentially longer to process) in how it parses CSS selectors. Attackers can exploit this by injecting malicious CSS selectors into methods like Node#css and Node#at_css to make the application hang or crash.
Solution / Mitigation
Upgrade to Nokogiri version 1.19.3 or later.
Vulnerability Details
7.5(high)
EPSS: 0.0%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
network
low
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August 25, 2026
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Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-79770
First tracked: August 25, 2026 at 02:10 PM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 75%