๐Ÿ” CVE Alert

CVE-2025-71406

HIGH 7.8

Nokogiri before 1.18.4 Use-After-Free via libxslt

CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

Nokogiri before 1.18.4 bundles a vulnerable version of libxslt (prior to 1.1.43) that contains two use-after-free vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-24855 (use-after-free of the XPath context node due to xsltEvalXPathStringNs leaking xpathCtxt->node) and CVE-2024-55549 (use-after-free related to excluded result prefixes/namespaces). Processing crafted XSLT can trigger memory corruption. Nokogiri 1.18.4 upgrades the bundled libxslt to 1.1.43 to resolve these issues.

CWE CWE-416
Vendor sparklemotion
Product nokogiri
Published Aug 25, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Affected Versions

sparklemotion / nokogiri
0 < 1.18.4

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
github.com: https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/security/advisories/GHSA-mrxw-mxhj-p664 vulncheck.com: https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/nokogiri-before-use-after-free-via-libxslt