CVE-2024-39908

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-39908
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-39908.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-39908
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Published
2024-07-16T17:28:07.372Z
Modified
2026-05-15T04:08:31.875984249Z
Severity
  • 4.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS Calculator
Summary
Denial of service in REXML
Details

REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.1 has some DoS vulnerabilities when it parses an XML that has many specific characters such as <, 0 and %>. If you need to parse untrusted XMLs, you many be impacted to these vulnerabilities. The REXML gem 3.3.2 or later include the patches to fix these vulnerabilities. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should avoid parsing untrusted XML strings.

Database specific 
{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-400"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/39xxx/CVE-2024-39908.json",
    "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M"
}
References

Affected packages