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CVE-2026-79771— Nokogiri before 1.19.3 Memory Leak via XSLT Transform

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Affected
sparklemotion nokogiri
Exploitation
No confirmed in-the-wild exploitation; assess based on exposure
Recommended action
Check the vendor advisory and references for a fixed version. If immediate upgrade is impossible, restrict exposure and increase monitoring.

Nokogiri 1.19.3 之前的版本在处理包含空字节（null bytes）的 Ruby 字符串时，XSLT 样式表转换方法中存在内存泄漏漏洞。攻击者可通过向 transform 参数传递包含空字节的恶意输入，导致堆内存分配泄漏，从而对长期运行的进程造成拒绝服务（DoS）攻击。

CVSS 5.3 · Medium

Possible ATT&CK Techniques 1 AI

T1499 · Endpoint Denial of Service

Affected Version Matrix 2

VendorProduct Version RangeStatus
sparklemotion nokogiri < 1.19.3 affected
1.19.3 unaffected
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I. Basic Information for CVE-2026-79771

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Vulnerability Title
Nokogiri before 1.19.3 Memory Leak via XSLT Transform
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Description
Nokogiri versions before 1.19.3 contain a memory leak in the XSLT Stylesheet transform method when processing Ruby strings containing null bytes. Attackers can exploit this by passing attacker-controlled input with null bytes to transform parameters, causing heap allocations to leak and enabling denial of service against long-running processes.
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
CVSS Information
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Type
在移除最后引用时对内存的释放不恰当(内存泄露)
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5

Affected Products

Vendor Product Affected Versions CPE Subscribe
sparklemotion nokogiri 0 ~ 1.19.3 -

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Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-79771 (1)

Other References for CVE-2026-79771 (1)

Same Patch Batch · sparklemotion · 2026-08-25 · 14 CVEs total

CVE-2024-58378 9.8 CRITICAL Nokogiri before 1.16.2 Use-After-Free via xmlTextReader
CVE-2022-51000 9.8 CRITICAL Nokogiri before 1.13.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities via libxml2 libxslt
CVE-2025-71407 9.8 CRITICAL Nokogiri before 1.18.3 Stack Buffer Overflow and Use-After-Free
CVE-2022-50999 8.6 HIGH Nokogiri before 1.13.5 Integer Overflow via libxml2
CVE-2025-71406 7.8 HIGH Nokogiri before 1.18.4 Use-After-Free via libxslt
CVE-2023-54354 7.5 HIGH Nokogiri before 1.14.3 Null Pointer Dereference via libxml2
CVE-2026-79770 7.5 HIGH Nokogiri before 1.19.3 ReDoS via CSS selector tokenizer
CVE-2022-50998 7.5 HIGH Nokogiri before 1.13.9 Multiple Vulnerabilities via libxml2
CVE-2021-47996 7.5 HIGH Nokogiri before 1.11.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities via libxml2
CVE-2026-79769 5.5 MEDIUM Nokogiri before 1.19.4 Invalid Memory Read via initialize_copy_with_args
CVE-2026-79772 5.3 MEDIUM Nokogiri before 1.19.1 Unchecked Return Value canonicalize
CVE-2025-71346 2.9 LOW Nokogiri before 1.18.8 Heap Buffer Under-read via XML Schema
CVE-2024-58377 Nokogiri before 1.16.5 libxml2 Dependency Update

IV. Related Vulnerabilities

Same product: nokogiri
Same vendor: sparklemotion
Same weakness: CWE-401

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