CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-49761

6.6 MEDIUM Published 2024-10-28 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-10-28
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
6.6 MEDIUM — CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/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
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-1333

Description

REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.9 has a ReDoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many digits between &# and x...; in a hex numeric character reference (&#x...;). This does not happen with Ruby 3.2 or later. Ruby 3.1 is the only affected maintained Ruby. The REXML gem 3.3.9 or later include the patch to fix the vulnerability.

Affected configurations

• ruby-lang rexml (< 3.3.9) • netapp ontap tools 10

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity weakness

References