CVE-2026-57434: nokogiri NULL Pointer Dereference
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2026-57434 is a high (CVSS 7.5) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in nokogiri. EPSS estimates a 0.46% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 38.8% of scored vulnerabilities.
Timeline
- 25-06-2026PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 25-06-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Nokogiri is an open source XML and HTML library for the Ruby programming language. Prior to 1.19.4, Nokogiri contains a bug when calling certain methods on allocated-but-uninitialized native wrapper classes that inherit from Nokogiri::XML::Node. This caused a NULL pointer dereference that could crash the process. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.19.4.
CVSS metrics
7 scores · 5 sources · 2 versions- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated6.3MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:UDiffers
- OSV · RubygemsEcosystem advisory · calculated6.3MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:UDiffers
- NVDNIST1.7LowCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.46%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
39%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 0.46% on 21-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Debian1 product
- ruby-nokogiriAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 1.19.4+dfsg-1
Nokogiri1 product
- nokogiri< 1.19.4
RubyGems1 product
- nokogiri< 1.19.4
Sparklemotion1 product
- nokogiri< 1.19.4
Ubuntu1 product
- ruby-nokogiriAll versions (No fix recorded)
5 vendors · 5 products
References
6 links- github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/security/advisories/GHSA-9cv2-cfxc-v4v2X Refsource CONFIRMREPORTWEBMitigationVendor Advisory