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CVE-2024-41123 (GCVE-0-2024-41123)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-01 14:18 – Updated: 2025-11-03 20:38
VLAI
Title
REXML DoS vulnerability
Summary
REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.2 has some DoS vulnerabilities when it parses an XML that has many specific characters such as whitespace character, `>]` and `]>`. The REXML gem 3.3.3 or later include the patches to fix these vulnerabilities.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-08-01 14:33 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
ruby rexml Affected: < 3.3.3
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ruby-lang rexml Affected: 0 , < 3.3.3 (custom)
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