Critical (9.8). EPSS 5.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in nokogiri 1.10.3.
libxslt through 1.1.33 allows bypass of a protection mechanism because callers of xsltCheckRead and xsltCheckWrite permit access even upon receiving a -1 error code. xsltCheckRead can return -1 for a crafted URL that is not actually invalid and is subsequently loaded.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
9.8 critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
5.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 92% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)