CVE-2024-41946
REXML DoS vulnerability
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.3 Medium
- Published
- Aug 1, 2024
- Updated
- Nov 3, 2025
- Reserved
- Jul 24, 2024
Description
REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem 3.3.2 has a DoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many entity expansions with SAX2 or pull parser API. The REXML gem 3.3.3 or later include the patch to fix the vulnerability.
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-5866-49gr-22v4
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/033d1909a8f259d5a7c53681bcaf14f13bcf0368
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2008/08/23/dos-vulnerability-in-rexml
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/08/01/dos-rexml-cve-2024-41946
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250117-0007/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00011.html
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