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🛡️ GHSA-vvfq-8hwr-qm4m — nokogiri (CVE-2025-24928 +1 more)

🟢 CVSS 2.0 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-121 OSV
2.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Nokogiri updates packaged libxml2 to 2.13.6 to resolve CVE-2025-24928 and CVE-2024-56171

Summary

Nokogiri v1.18.3 upgrades its dependency libxml2 to [v2.13.6](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/releases/v2.13.6).

libxml2 v2.13.6 addresses:

  • CVE-2025-24928
  • described at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/847
  • CVE-2024-56171
  • described at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/828

Impact

CVE-2025-24928

Stack-buffer overflow is possible when reporting DTD validation errors if the input contains a long (~3kb) QName prefix.

CVE-2024-56171

Use-after-free is possible during validation against untrusted XML Schemas (.xsd) and, potentially, validation of untrusted documents against trusted Schemas if they make use of xsd:keyref in combination with recursively defined types that have additional identity constraints.

Weakness class

GHSA-vvfq-8hwr-qm4m is classified as CWE-121: Stack-based Buffer Overflow. An oversized write to a stack buffer overwrites saved state such as return addresses, which can redirect execution.

Affected software

GHSA-vvfq-8hwr-qm4m is recorded against 1 package.

  • nokogiri (fixed in 1.18.3)

Timeline and source

Published on 18 February 2025 and last revised on 4 February 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 2.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE CWE-121
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-02-18
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-02-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
nokogiri 1.18.3

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