FKIE_CVE-2024-43398

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-08-22 15:15 - Updated: 2025-11-03 21:16
Severity ?
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.6 has a DoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many deep elements that have same local name attributes. If you need to parse untrusted XMLs with tree parser API like REXML::Document.new, you may be impacted to this vulnerability. If you use other parser APIs such as stream parser API and SAX2 parser API, this vulnerability is not affected. The REXML gem 3.3.6 or later include the patch to fix the vulnerability.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/ruby/rexml/releases/tag/v3.3.6Release Notes
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vmwr-mc7x-5vc3Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00011.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250103-0006/Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
ruby-lang rexml *
netapp bootstrap_os -
netapp hci_compute_node -
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