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CVE-2024-35176GHSA-VG3R-RM7W-2XGH

REXML contains a denial of service vulnerability

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 3.2.7
1 proof of concept on GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • ruby rexml

    fixed in 3.2.7

  • rexmlRubyGems

    fixed in 3.2.7

References 4

GitHub · ruby/rexml

ruby-lang.org

GitHub · SpiralBL0CK/CVE-2024-35176