GHSA-wfpw-mmfh-qq69

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wfpw-mmfh-qq69

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/06/GHSA-wfpw-mmfh-qq69/GHSA-wfpw-mmfh-qq69.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-wfpw-mmfh-qq69

Aliases

CVE-2026-57438

Downstream

CGA (118)

MINI (8)

Published

2026-06-19T16:37:25Z

Modified

2026-09-10T03:51:09Z

Summary

Nokogiri: Possible Use-After-Free in XInclude Processing

Details

Summary

XInclude substitution performed by Nokogiri::XML::Node#do_xinclude replaced each <xi:include> in place, freeing the include node along with its children (such as <xi:fallback> and its descendants) and any namespaces declared on them. If an application had already exposed one of those nodes or namespaces to Ruby, the corresponding Ruby object was left pointing at freed memory. Using the object could result in invalid reads or writes to memory.

Nokogiri 1.19.4 substitutes each <xi:include> on a defensive copy by default, so the structures libxml2 frees are never the ones bound to live Ruby objects.

Only the CRuby implementation is affected; JRuby is not affected.

Severity

The Nokogiri maintainers have evaluated this as low severity. Reaching it requires an unusual API-usage pattern that does not arise during normal use. The application must parse a document without XInclude, traverse into an <xi:include> subtree to expose its nodes or namespaces to Ruby, and only then invoke XInclude processing. The common case, requesting XInclude at parse time, operates on a freshly parsed document whose nodes are not yet exposed to Ruby and is not affected. Nokogiri 1.19.4 makes this pattern safe by default and requires no change to application code.

Mitigation

Upgrade to Nokogiri 1.19.4 or later.

As a workaround for earlier versions, perform XInclude substitution at parse time (with the xinclude parse option) rather than calling #do_xinclude on a document that has already been traversed. A freshly parsed document has no nodes exposed to Ruby, so the substitution is safe.

Credit

This issue was responsibly reported by Zheng Yu from depthfirst.com.

Database specific

{
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-416"
    ],
    "github_reviewed":  true,
    "github_reviewed_at":  "2026-06-19T16:37:25Z",
    "nvd_published_at":  null,
    "severity":  "LOW"
}

References

Affected packages

RubyGems / nokogiri

Package

Name: nokogiri
Purl: pkg:gem/nokogiri

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.19.4

Affected versions

1.*

1.0.0

1.0.1

1.0.2

1.0.3

1.0.4

1.0.5

1.0.6

1.0.7

1.1.0

1.1.1

1.2.0

1.2.1

1.2.2

1.2.3

1.3.0

1.3.1

1.3.2

1.3.3

1.4.0

1.4.1

1.4.2

1.4.2.1

1.4.3

1.4.3.1

1.4.4

1.4.4.1

1.4.4.2

1.4.5

1.4.6

1.4.7

1.5.0.beta.1

1.5.0.beta.2

1.5.0.beta.3

1.5.0.beta.4

1.5.0

1.5.1.rc1

1.5.1

1.5.2

1.5.3.rc2

1.5.3.rc3

1.5.3.rc4

1.5.3.rc5

1.5.3.rc6

1.5.3

1.5.4.rc1

1.5.4.rc2

1.5.4.rc3

1.5.4

1.5.5.rc1

1.5.5.rc2

1.5.5.rc3

1.5.5

1.5.6.rc1

1.5.6.rc2

1.5.6.rc3

1.5.6

1.5.7.rc1

1.5.7.rc2

1.5.7.rc3

1.5.7

1.5.8

1.5.9

1.5.10

1.5.11

1.6.0.rc1

1.6.0

1.6.1

1.6.2.rc1

1.6.2.rc2

1.6.2.rc3

1.6.2

1.6.2.1

1.6.3.rc1

1.6.3.rc2

1.6.3.rc3

1.6.3

1.6.3.1

1.6.4

1.6.4.1

1.6.5

1.6.6.1

1.6.6.2

1.6.6.3

1.6.6.4

1.6.7.rc2

1.6.7.rc3

1.6.7.rc4

1.6.7

1.6.7.1

1.6.7.2

1.6.8.rc1

1.6.8.rc2

1.6.8.rc3

1.6.8

1.6.8.1

1.7.0

1.7.0.1

1.7.1

1.7.2

1.8.0

1.8.1

1.8.2

1.8.3

1.8.4

1.8.5

1.9.0.rc1

1.9.0

1.9.1

1.10.0.rc1

1.10.0

1.10.1

1.10.2

1.10.3

1.10.4

1.10.5

1.10.6

1.10.7

1.10.8

1.10.9

1.10.10

1.11.0.rc1

1.11.0.rc2

1.11.0.rc3

1.11.0.rc4

1.11.0

1.11.1

1.11.2

1.11.3

1.11.4

1.11.5

1.11.6

1.11.7

1.12.0.rc1

1.12.0

1.12.1

1.12.2

1.12.3

1.12.4

1.12.5

1.13.0

1.13.1

1.13.2

1.13.3

1.13.4

1.13.5

1.13.6

1.13.7

1.13.8

1.13.9

1.13.10

1.14.0.rc1

1.14.0

1.14.1

1.14.2

1.14.3

1.14.4

1.14.5

1.15.0

1.15.1

1.15.2

1.15.3

1.15.4

1.15.5

1.15.6

1.15.7

1.16.0.rc1

1.16.0

1.16.1

1.16.2

1.16.3

1.16.4

1.16.5

1.16.6

1.16.7

1.16.8

1.17.0

1.17.1

1.17.2

1.18.0.rc1

1.18.0

1.18.1

1.18.2

1.18.3

1.18.4

1.18.5

1.18.6

1.18.7

1.18.8

1.18.9

1.18.10

1.19.0

1.19.1

1.19.2

1.19.3

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/06/GHSA-wfpw-mmfh-qq69/GHSA-wfpw-mmfh-qq69.json"