GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems
GHSA-4xqq-m2hx-25v8 REXML denial of service vulnerability
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2024-39908
- Ecosystem
- RubyGems
- Packages
- rexml
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
- Reviewed
- 2024-07-16
Affected packages
• RubyGems rexml: < 3.3.2 → fixed in 3.3.2
Description
Impact
The REXML gem before 3.3.1 has some DoS vulnerabilities when it parses an XML that has many specific characters such as ``.
If you need to parse untrusted XMLs, you may be impacted to these vulnerabilities.
Patches
The REXML gem 3.3.2 or later include the patches to fix these vulnerabilities.
Workarounds
Don't parse untrusted XMLs.
References
• https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh : This is a similar vulnerability
• https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/07/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-39908/
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2024-39908 REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-4xqq-m2hx-25v8 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-39908 advisory
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml package
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/releases/tag/v3.3.2 web
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rexml/CVE-2024-39908.yml web
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00011.html web
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250117-0008 web
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/07/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-39908 web