GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems
GHSA-r55c-59qm-vjw6 REXML DoS vulnerability
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2024-41123
- Ecosystem
- RubyGems
- Packages
- rexml
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400, CWE-770
- Reviewed
- 2024-08-01
Affected packages
• RubyGems rexml: < 3.3.3 → fixed in 3.3.3
Description
Impact
The REXML gem before 3.3.2 has some DoS vulnerabilities when it parses an XML that has many specific characters such as whitespace character, `>]` and `]>`.
If you need to parse untrusted XMLs, you may be impacted to these vulnerabilities.
Patches
The REXML gem 3.3.3 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://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-4xqq-m2hx-25v8 : This is a similar vulnerability
• https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/08/01/dos-rexml-cve-2024-41123/: An announce on www.ruby-lang.org
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2024-41123 REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. vulnerability
References
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-4xqq-m2hx-25v8 web
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-r55c-59qm-vjw6 web
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-41123 advisory
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml package
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rexml/CVE-2024-41123.yml web
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00011.html web
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241227-0005 web
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/08/01/dos-rexml-cve-2024-41123 web