CVE-2026-79770
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.
Published:Aug 25, 2026
Last Modified:Sep 1, 2026
EPS:Aug 25, 2026
EPSS Score:0.00278
CVSS Score:7.5
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Nokogiri
Product
Nokogiri
Nokogiri
Nokogiri
Exploits
No exploit reference
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Related CVEs
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
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Local
Physical
Privileges Required
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User Interaction
None
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Scope
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Confidentiality
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Integrity
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Availability
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