CVE-2024-35176

Medium

Description

REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.2.6 has a denial of service vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many `<`s in an attribute value. Those who need to parse untrusted XMLs may be impacted to this vulnerability. The REXML gem 3.2.7 or later include the patch to fix this vulnerability. As a workaround, don't parse untrusted XMLs.

SeverityMedium

CVSS5.3

Exploit probability—

ProductRuby-lang Rexml

PublishedMay 16, 2024

First seenMay 16, 2024

Weakness typeCWE-400Uncontrolled resource consumption CWE-770Allocation of resources without limits

How to fix

Update

ruby-lang rexml3.2.7 or later

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
ruby-lang rexml	v < 3.2.7	3.2.7

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