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ghsa-r55c-59qm-vjw6

Vulnerability from github

Published

2024-08-01 22:05

Modified

2024-12-27 18:30

Severity ?

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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 DoS vulnerability

Details

Impact

The REXML gem before 3.3.2 has some DoS vulnerabilities when it parses an XML that has many specific characters such as whitespace character, >] and ]>.

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

Patches

The REXML gem 3.3.3 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://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-4xqq-m2hx-25v8 : This is a similar vulnerability
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/08/01/dos-rexml-cve-2024-41123/: An announce on www.ruby-lang.org

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            ecosystem: "RubyGems",
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         },
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   modified: "2024-12-27T18:30:26Z",
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         type: "CVSS_V3",
      },
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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",
      },
   ],
   summary: "REXML DoS vulnerability",
}

cve-2024-41123

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2024-08-01 14:18

Modified

2024-12-27 16:03

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 3.3.2 has some DoS vulnerabilities when it parses an XML that has many specific characters such as whitespace character, `>]` and `]>`. The REXML gem 3.3.3 or later include the patches to fix these vulnerabilities.

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-r55c-59qm-vjw6	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-4xqq-m2hx-25v8	x_refsource_MISC
	https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh	x_refsource_MISC
	https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/08/01/dos-rexml-cve-2024-41123	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	ruby	rexml	Version: < 3.3.3

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

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