CVE-2024-41946: medium-severity vulnerability in ruby rexml
REXML DoS vulnerability
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.3epss 1.2%
REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem 3.3.2 has a DoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many entity expansions with SAX2 or pull parser API. The REXML gem 3.3.3 or later include the patch to fix the vulnerability.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Affected products
ruby · rexmlRelated CVEs — ruby rexml
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2024-35176MEDIUMREXML contains a denial of service vulnerabilityEPSS 2.1%CVE-2024-39908MEDIUMDenial of service in REXMLEPSS 1.5%CVE-2024-49761MEDIUMREXML ReDoS vulnerabilityEPSS 1.4%CVE-2024-41123MEDIUMREXML DoS vulnerabilityEPSS 1.3%CVE-2024-43398MEDIUMREXML denial of service vulnerabilityEPSS 1.2%CVE-2025-58767LOWREXML has a DoS condition when parsing malformed XML fileEPSS 0.2%
References
https://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/033d1909a8f259d5a7c53681bcaf14f13bcf0368https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-5866-49gr-22v4https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00011.htmlhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250117-0007/https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2008/08/23/dos-vulnerability-in-rexmlhttps://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/08/01/dos-rexml-cve-2024-41946