High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 25, 2026· Updated Aug 25, 2026
CVE-2026-79770
CVE-2026-79770
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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Affected products
1- Range: <1.19.3
Patches
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