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alsa-2024:6785

Vulnerability from osv_almalinux

Published

2024-09-18 00:00

Modified

2024-09-19 16:36

Summary

Moderate: ruby:3.3 security update

Details

Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to perform system management tasks.

Security Fix(es):

rexml: DoS vulnerability in REXML (CVE-2024-39908)
rexml: rubygem-rexml: DoS when parsing an XML having many specific characters such as whitespace character, >] and ]> (CVE-2024-41123)
rexml: DoS vulnerability in REXML (CVE-2024-41946)
rexml: DoS vulnerability in REXML (CVE-2024-43398)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

References

URL

Type

	https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6785	ADVISORY
	https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-39908	REPORT
	https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-41123	REPORT
	https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-41946	REPORT
	https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-43398	REPORT
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2298243	REPORT
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2302268	REPORT
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2302272	REPORT
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2307297	REPORT
	https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2024-6785.html	ADVISORY

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CVE-2024-39908 (GCVE-0-2024-39908)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-16 17:28 – Updated: 2025-11-03 20:38

Title

Denial of service in REXML

Summary

REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.1 has some DoS vulnerabilities when it parses an XML that has many specific characters such as `<`, `0` and `%>`. If you need to parse untrusted XMLs, you many be impacted to these vulnerabilities. The REXML gem 3.3.2 or later include the patches to fix these vulnerabilities. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should avoid parsing untrusted XML strings.

Severity ?

4.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Assigner

GitHub_M

References

URL

Tags

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	https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/07/16/dos-…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	ruby	rexml	Affected: < 3.3.2

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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

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

CWE

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Assigner

GitHub_M

References

URL

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-01 14:22 – Updated: 2025-11-03 20:38

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

CWE

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Assigner

GitHub_M

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	https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2008/08/23/dos-…	x_refsource_MISC
	https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/08/01/dos-…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	ruby	rexml	Affected: < 3.3.3

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CVE-2024-43398 (GCVE-0-2024-43398)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-22 14:14 – Updated: 2025-11-03 20:38

Title

REXML denial of service vulnerability

Summary

REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.6 has a DoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many deep elements that have same local name attributes. If you need to parse untrusted XMLs with tree parser API like REXML::Document.new, you may be impacted to this vulnerability. If you use other parser APIs such as stream parser API and SAX2 parser API, this vulnerability is not affected. The REXML gem 3.3.6 or later include the patch to fix the vulnerability.

Severity ?

5.9 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE

CWE-776 - Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')

Assigner

GitHub_M

References

URL

Tags

	https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://github.com/ruby/rexml/releases/tag/v3.3.6	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	ruby	rexml	Affected: < 3.3.6

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Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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