Nokogiri before 1.11.4 (CRuby implementation only, when the packaged/vendored libxml2 is used) bundles libxml2 2.9.10, which is affected by multiple vulnerabilities addressed in libxml2 2.9.12, including a memory leak in xmlSchemaValidateStream (CVE-2019-20388), a global buffer over-read in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal (CVE-2020-24977), a heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-2021-3517), and an out-of-bounds read (CVE-2021-3518). Processing crafted XML documents may lead to denial of service, information disclosure, or memory corruption.

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Description Nokogiri before 1.11.4 (CRuby implementation only, when the packaged/vendored libxml2 is used) bundles libxml2 2.9.10, which is affected by multiple vulnerabilities addressed in libxml2 2.9.12, including a memory leak in xmlSchemaValidateStream (CVE-2019-20388), a global buffer over-read in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal (CVE-2020-24977), a heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-2021-3517), and an out-of-bounds read (CVE-2021-3518). Processing crafted XML documents may lead to denial of service, information disclosure, or memory corruption.
Title Nokogiri before 1.11.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities via libxml2
First Time appeared Nokogiri
Nokogiri nokogiri
Weaknesses CWE-119
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:nokogiri:nokogiri:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Nokogiri
Nokogiri nokogiri
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-25T17:19:33.616Z

Reserved: 2026-08-25T14:31:58.552Z

Link: CVE-2021-47996

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-08-25T17:19:29.935Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-25T16:16:42.930

Modified: 2026-08-25T18:17:02.543

Link: CVE-2021-47996

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-25T17:30:07Z

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