cve-2024-49761
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-10-28 14:10
Modified
2024-12-27 16:03
Severity ?
6.6 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
EPSS score ?
0.16% (0.33945)
Summary
REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.9 has a ReDoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many digits between &# and x...; in a hex numeric character reference (&#x...;). This does not happen with Ruby 3.2 or later. Ruby 3.1 is the only affected maintained Ruby. The REXML gem 3.3.9 or later include the patch to fix the vulnerability.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/ce59f2eb1aeb371fe1643414f06618dbe031979fPatch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-2rxp-v6pw-ch6mThird Party Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/10/28/redos-rexml-cve-2024-49761Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241227-0004/Third Party Advisory
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