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CVE-2026-79770

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2026-08-25 Modified: 2026-09-01

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.

Affected Platforms

Nokogiri Nokogiri

Weakness Type

CWE-1333

References