FKIE_CVE-2025-10990

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-02-27 14:16 - Updated: 2026-06-17 08:29
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A flaw was found in REXML. A remote attacker could exploit inefficient regular expression (regex) parsing when processing hex numeric character references (&#x...;) in XML documents. This could lead to a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS), impacting the availability of the affected component. This issue is the result of an incomplete fix for CVE-2024-49761.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17606
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17613
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17693
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-10990
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2398216
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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