CVE-2024-35176
REXML contains a denial of service vulnerability
Summary
REXML contains a denial of service vulnerability
Original description
The description as published by the source.
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.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-35176 ruby2.7 Fixed in: 2.7.4-1+deb11u3
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-35176 jruby
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- advisory security.netapp.com
- patch github.com
- web lists.debian.org
- web ruby-lang.org