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Vulnerability details: VCID-7a2w-2ewv-93fp
Vulnerability ID VCID-7a2w-2ewv-93fp
Aliases CVE-2012-6685
GHSA-6wj9-77wq-jq7p
OSV-90946
Summary Nokogiri is vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) attack Nokogiri before 1.5.4 is vulnerable to XXE attacks.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (4)
CWE-776 Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')
CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
epss 0.00323 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-6685
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178970
generic_textual HIGH https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178970
cvssv3.1_qr HIGH https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6wj9-77wq-jq7p
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri
generic_textual HIGH https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/693
generic_textual HIGH https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/693
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://nokogiri.org/CHANGELOG.html#154-2012-06-12
generic_textual HIGH https://nokogiri.org/CHANGELOG.html#154-2012-06-12
cvssv3 7.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6685
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6685
generic_textual HIGH https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6685
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2012-6685.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-6685
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178970
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-6685
https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri
https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/commit/599856367150709497a3a03bee930bd76504d95d
https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/693
https://nokogiri.org/CHANGELOG.html#154-2012-06-12
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6685
GHSA-6wj9-77wq-jq7p https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6wj9-77wq-jq7p
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Found at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178970
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Found at https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Found at https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/693
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Found at https://nokogiri.org/CHANGELOG.html#154-2012-06-12
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6685
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.55577
EPSS Score 0.00323
Published At May 29, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-05-29T09:23:48.885929+00:00 GithubOSV Importer Import https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/04/GHSA-6wj9-77wq-jq7p/GHSA-6wj9-77wq-jq7p.json 38.6.0