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CVE-2024-35176

Published: May 16, 2024

Modified: Nov 3, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

5.3

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
ruby	rexml	affected `< 3.2.7`

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Low

References

https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/4325835f92f3f142ebd91a3fdba4e1f1ab7f1cfb

x_refsource_MISC

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/05/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-35176

x_refsource_MISC

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