ALPINE-CVE-2024-49761
- Source
- https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-49761
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2024-49761.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2024-49761
- Upstream
- Published
- 2024-10-28T15:15:05Z
- Modified
- 2025-09-30T05:28:42.858858Z
- Severity
-
- 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
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.
- References
Affected packages
Alpine:v3.19 / ruby-rexml
Package
- Name
- ruby-rexml
- Purl
- pkg:apk/alpine/ruby-rexml?arch=source
Alpine:v3.20 / ruby-rexml
Package
- Name
- ruby-rexml
- Purl
- pkg:apk/alpine/ruby-rexml?arch=source
Alpine:v3.21 / ruby-rexml
Package
- Name
- ruby-rexml
- Purl
- pkg:apk/alpine/ruby-rexml?arch=source