CVE-2025-10990

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-10990
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-10990.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-10990
Aliases
Downstream
RHSA (3)
UBUNTU (1)
Published
2026-02-27T13:32:02Z
Modified
2026-10-22T10:32:39Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Rexml: rexml: denial of service via inefficient regex parsing
Details

A flaw was found in REXML. A remote attacker could exploit inefficient regular expression (regex) parsing when processing hex numeric character references (&#x...;) in XML documents. This could lead to a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS), impacting the availability of the affected component. This issue is the result of an incomplete fix for CVE-2024-49761.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "redhat",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-1333"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/10xxx/CVE-2025-10990.json",
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "range": [
                        {
                            "fixed": "0:8.8.1-3.el8sat"
                        },
                        {
                            "fixed": "0:8.8.1-3.el8sat"
                        },
                        {
                            "fixed": "0:8.8.1-3.el9sat"
                        },
                        {
                            "fixed": "0:8.8.1-3.el9sat"
                        },
                        {
                            "fixed": "0:8.8.1-3.el9sat"
                        },
                        {
                            "fixed": "0:8.8.1-3.el9sat"
                        },
                        {
                            "fixed": "0:7.34.0-4.el8sat"
                        },
                        {
                            "fixed": "0:7.34.0-4.el9sat"
                        }
                    ],
                    "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
                    "strategy": "InverseAffectedRanges"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
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
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "range": [
                {
                    "fixed": "ce59f2eb1aeb371fe1643414f06618dbe031979f"
                }
            ],
            "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        }
    ]
}

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-2025-10990.json"