CVE-2024-49761

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-49761
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-49761.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-49761
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Published
2024-10-28T14:10:23.212Z
Modified
2025-12-08T19:11:02.916568Z
Severity
  • 6.6 (Medium) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U CVSS Calculator
Summary
REXML ReDoS vulnerability
Details

REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.9 has a ReDoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many digits between &# and x...; in a hex numeric character reference (&#x...;). This does not happen with Ruby 3.2 or later. Ruby 3.1 is the only affected maintained Ruby. The REXML gem 3.3.9 or later include the patch to fix the vulnerability.

Database specific 
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/49xxx/CVE-2024-49761.json",
    "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-1333"
    ]
}
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
ce59f2eb1aeb371fe1643414f06618dbe031979f

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
v3.2.7
v3.2.8
v3.2.9
v3.3.0
v3.3.1
v3.3.2
v3.3.3
v3.3.4
v3.3.5
v3.3.6
v3.3.7
v3.3.8

Git / github.com/ruby/ruby

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/ruby/ruby
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
f5c772fc7cbe9f5b58d962939fcb1c7e3fb1cfa6

Affected versions

Other

v1_0_r2
v2_7_0_preview1
v2_7_0_preview2
v2_7_0_preview3
v2_7_0_rc1
v2_7_0_rc2
v3_0_0_preview1
v3_0_0_preview2
v3_0_0_rc1
v3_0_0_rc2
v3_1_0_preview1
v3_2_0_preview1
v3_2_0_preview2
v3_2_0_preview3
v3_2_0_rc1
v3_3_0
v3_3_0_preview1
v3_3_0_preview2
v3_3_0_preview3
v3_3_1
v3_3_2
v3_3_3
v3_3_4
v3_3_5
v3_3_6
v3_3_7
v3_3_8