CVE-2024-35176 (GCVE-0-2024-35176)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-05-16 15:13
Modified
2025-03-07 00:10
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
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.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/4325835f92f3f142ebd91a3fdba4e1f1ab7f1cfb
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh
security-advisories@github.comhttps://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/05/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-35176
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/4325835f92f3f142ebd91a3fdba4e1f1ab7f1cfb
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250306-0001/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/05/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-35176
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