CVE-2024-35176
REXML contains a denial of service vulnerability
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.3 Medium
- Published
- May 16, 2024
- Updated
- Nov 3, 2025
- Reserved
- May 10, 2024
Description
REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.2.6 has a denial of service vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many `<`s in an attribute value. Those who need to parse untrusted XMLs may be impacted to this vulnerability. The REXML gem 3.2.7 or later include the patch to fix this vulnerability. As a workaround, don't parse untrusted XMLs.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 5.3 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
rexmlruby |
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References
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/4325835f92f3f142ebd91a3fdba4e1f1ab7f1cfb
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/05/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-35176
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250306-0001/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00011.html
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