CVE-2024-35176

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-35176
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-35176.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-35176
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2024-05-16T15:13:25Z
Modified
2025-10-17T02:45:50.358189Z
Severity
  • 5.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS Calculator
Summary
REXML contains a denial of service vulnerability
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/ruby/rexml

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/ruby/rexml
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed

Affected versions

v3.*

v3.1.8
v3.1.9
v3.2.0
v3.2.1
v3.2.2
v3.2.3
v3.2.4
v3.2.5
v3.2.6