CVE-2024-49761

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=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
Aliases
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Published
2024-10-28T14:10:23.212Z
Modified
2026-06-15T12:21:03.633841673Z
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
38eaa86ac7abe0d31cf49d8df57ad239fdeb80e9
Fixed
ce59f2eb1aeb371fe1643414f06618dbe031979f
Database specific 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "3.3.9"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:rexml:*:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*",
    "source": [
        "CPE_RANGE",
        "REFERENCES"
    ]
}

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

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-49761.json"