CVE-2024-41946 (GCVE-0-2024-41946)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-01 14:22 – Updated: 2025-11-03 20:38
VLAI
Title
REXML DoS vulnerability
Summary
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.
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 15:45 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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