CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-10990
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-02-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-26
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- 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
A flaw was found in REXML. A remote attacker could exploit inefficient regular expression (regex) parsing when processing hex numeric character references (&#x...;) in XML documents. This could lead to a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS), impacting the availability of the affected component. This issue is the result of an incomplete fix for CVE-2024-49761.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17606 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17613 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17693 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-10990 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2398216 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/ce59f2eb1aeb371fe1643414f06618dbe031979f github.com
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-2rxp-v6pw-ch6m github.com
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/10/28/redos-rexml-cve-2024-49761/ www.ruby-lang.org