CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-35176
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-05-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400, CWE-770
Description
REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.2.6 has a denial of service vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many `<`s in an attribute value. Those who need to parse untrusted XMLs may be impacted to this vulnerability. The REXML gem 3.2.7 or later include the patch to fix this vulnerability. As a workaround, don't parse untrusted XMLs.
Affected configurations
• ruby-lang rexml (< 3.2.7)
Related
References
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/4325835f92f3f142ebd91a3fdba4e1f1ab7f1cfb Patch
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh Vendor Advisory
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/05/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-35176 Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/4325835f92f3f142ebd91a3fdba4e1f1ab7f1cfb Patch
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00011.html lists.debian.org
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250306-0001/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/05/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-35176 Vendor Advisory