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ghsa-4xqq-m2hx-25v8

Vulnerability from github

Published

2024-07-16 19:49

Modified

2024-07-16 19:49

Severity ?

4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
6.9 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Summary

REXML denial of service vulnerability

Details

Impact

The REXML gem before 3.3.1 has some DoS vulnerabilities when it parses an XML that has many specific characters such as <, 0 and %>.

If you need to parse untrusted XMLs, you may be impacted to these vulnerabilities.

Patches

The REXML gem 3.3.2 or later include the patches to fix these vulnerabilities.

Workarounds

Don't parse untrusted XMLs.

References

https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh : This is a similar vulnerability
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/07/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-39908/

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  "modified": "2024-07-16T19:49:15Z",
  "published": "2024-07-16T19:49:15Z",
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    },
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      "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V4"
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  "summary": "REXML denial of service vulnerability"
}

cve-2024-39908

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2024-07-16 17:28

Modified

2024-08-02 04:33

Severity ?

4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Summary

Denial of service in REXML

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-4xqq-m2hx-25v8	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/07/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-39908	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

▼	Vendor	Product
	ruby	rexml

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Not patched: This vulnerability was not successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.

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ghsa-4xqq-m2hx-25v8

Vulnerability from github

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cve-2024-39908

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

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