GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh
REXML contains a denial of service vulnerability
At a glance
- Published
- Updated
- CVE
- CVE-2024-35176
- CVSS_V3
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Description
### Impact The REXML gem before 3.2.6 has a DoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many `>`s in an attribute value. If you need to parse untrusted XMLs, you may be impacted to this vulnerability. ### Patches The REXML gem 3.2.7 or later include the patch to fix this vulnerability. ### Workarounds Don't parse untrusted XMLs. ### References * https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/05/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-35176/
Affected packages
| Package | Versions |
|---|---|
| RubyGems · rexml | introduced 0, fixed 3.2.7 |
References
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh WEB
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-35176 ADVISORY
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/4325835f92f3f142ebd91a3fdba4e1f1ab7f1cfb WEB
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml PACKAGE
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00011.html WEB
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250306-0001 WEB
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/05/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-35176 WEB
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| OSV.dev | CC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database |