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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-16 17:28 – Updated: 2025-11-03 20:38
VLAI
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
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
ruby rexml Affected: < 3.3.2
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ruby-lang rexml Affected: 0 , < 3.3.2 (custom)
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