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critical 9.8

CVE-2019-11068 json

Nokogiri vulnerable to libxslt protection mechanism bypass

published 7y ago modified 3mo ago also EUVD-2022-5058 , GHSA-qxcg-xjjg-66mj , JLSEC-2026-577

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
5.2%
EPSS 5.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • rubygems nokogiri 1.10.3
  • julia XSLT_jll 1.1.34+0
  • libxslt Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.1.32-2.1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-11068

  • libxslt Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1.1.28-2ubuntu0.2
  • libxslt Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1.1.28-2.1ubuntu0.2
  • libxslt Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 1.1.29-5ubuntu0.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-11068

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • libxslt RHEL 8 1.1.32-5.el8
  • libxslt RHEL 7 1.1.28-6.el7
  • libxslt-python RHEL 7 1.1.28-6.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2020:4464RHSA-2020:4005

  • crowbar OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 6.0+git.1561125496.b7508480-3.6.5
  • grafana OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9, OpenStack Cloud 9 5.3.3-3.3.1
  • ardana-db OpenStack Cloud 9 9.0+git.1560868957.42bcb70-3.3.5
  • ardana-mq OpenStack Cloud 9 9.0+git.1560214193.fc0378b-3.3.5
  • ardana-ses OpenStack Cloud 9 9.0+git.1554740095.48252d3-3.3.5
  • ardana-tls OpenStack Cloud 9 9.0+git.1557220381.5641a2e-3.3.5
  • crowbar-ha OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 6.0+git.1560951093.4af1ee5-3.3.7
  • ardana-heat OpenStack Cloud 9 9.0+git.1559036788.b727b53-3.3.5

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2019:2046-1SUSE-SU-2019:1973-1SUSE-SU-2019:1862-1SUSE-SU-2019:1221-2SUSE-SU-2019:1381-1SUSE-SU-2019:1232-1

  • rubygem-nokogiri openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.18.9-1.4
  • rubygem-nokogiri openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.18.2-1.1
  • rubygem-nokogiri openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.15.5-1.5
  • rmt-server openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.6.13-1.1
  • libxslt openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.1.34-3.2
  • rubygem-nokogiri openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.13.3-1.1
  • ruby3.2-rubygem-nokogiri openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.13.9-1.7
  • rmt-server openSUSE Leap 15.1 2.3.1-lp151.2.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:10356-1openSUSE-SU-2025:14697-1openSUSE-SU-2024:14174-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10589-1openSUSE-SU-2024:11017-1openSUSE-SU-2024:11912-1

  • libxslt Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +14 more 1.1.33-r1
  • libxslt Alpine 3.6 1.1.29-r4
  • libxslt Alpine 3.7 1.1.31-r1

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2019-11068

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2019-11068 updated cvss 6.3

libxslt: xsltCheckRead and xsltCheckWrite routines security bypass by crafted URL

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 libxslt Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 libxslt, libxslt-python Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka) libxslt-python Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) libxslt-python Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) libxslt-python Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14 (Rocky) libxslt-python
    +1 more products
    Red Hat Storage 3 libxslt, libxslt-python
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) libxslt-devel 1.1.32-5.el8, libxslt-debuginfo 1.1.32-5.el8, libxslt-debugsource 1.1.32-5.el8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) libxslt 1.1.32-5.el8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:4464
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) libxslt 1.1.28-6.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) libxslt-python 1.1.28-6.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) libxslt 1.1.28-6.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) libxslt-python 1.1.28-6.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) libxslt 1.1.28-6.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) libxslt-python 1.1.28-6.el7
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) libxslt 1.1.28-6.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) libxslt-python 1.1.28-6.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:4005

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
5mo ago

Exploit prediction

5.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
OSV 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
rubygems nokogiri
<1.10.3
1.10.3
julia XSLT_jll
<1.1.34+0
1.1.34+0

References

Sources

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