CVE-2024-35176 (GCVE-0-2024-35176)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-16 15:13 – Updated: 2025-11-03 20:37
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Title
REXML contains a denial of service vulnerability
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.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
ruby rexml Affected: < 3.2.7
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ruby-lang rexml Affected: 0 , < 3.2.7 (custom)
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