Medium severity5.3NVD Advisory· Published Aug 25, 2026
CVE-2026-79771
CVE-2026-79771
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.
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Affected products
1- Range: <1.19.3
Patches
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