CVE-2024-49761 (GCVE-0-2024-49761)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-28 14:10 – Updated: 2025-11-03 20:41
VLAI
Title
REXML ReDoS vulnerability
Summary
REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.9 has a ReDoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many digits between &# and x...; in a hex numeric character reference (&#x...;). This does not happen with Ruby 3.2 or later. Ruby 3.1 is the only affected maintained Ruby. The REXML gem 3.3.9 or later include the patch to fix the vulnerability.
Severity
6.6 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
ruby rexml Affected: < 3.3.9
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ruby rexml Affected: 0 , < 3.3.9 (custom)
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