CVE-2024-41123
REXML DoS vulnerability
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.3 Medium
- Published
- Aug 1, 2024
- Updated
- Nov 3, 2025
- Reserved
- Jul 15, 2024
Description
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.
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
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
rexmlruby |
|
References
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-r55c-59qm-vjw6
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-4xqq-m2hx-25v8
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/08/01/dos-rexml-cve-2024-41123
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241227-0005/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00011.html
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