REXML contains a denial of service vulnerability
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.3epss 2.1%
exploitation probability
2.1%top 21% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Affected products
ruby · rexmlReferences
https://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/4325835f92f3f142ebd91a3fdba4e1f1ab7f1cfbhttps://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xghhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00011.htmlhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250306-0001/https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/05/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-35176