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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"cna_assigner": "VulnCheck",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-401"
],
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/79xxx/CVE-2026-79771.json"
}{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:nokogiri:nokogiri:*:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*",
"extracted_events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
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}
],
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"AFFECTED_FIELD",
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]
}