CVE-2024-49761

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.

Database specific

{
    "cna_assigner":  "GitHub_M",
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-1333"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/49xxx/CVE-2024-49761.json"
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/ruby/rexml

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/ruby/rexml

Events

Introduced

Fixed

38eaa86ac7abe0d31cf49d8df57ad239fdeb80e9

Fixed

ce59f2eb1aeb371fe1643414f06618dbe031979f

Database specific

Show details

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    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:rexml:*:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "0"
                },
                {
                    "fixed":  "3.3.9"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_RANGE"
        },
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "ce59f2eb1aeb371fe1643414f06618dbe031979f"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v3.*

v3.1.8

v3.1.9

v3.2.0

v3.2.1

v3.2.2

v3.2.3

v3.2.4

v3.2.5

v3.2.6

v3.2.7

v3.2.8

v3.2.9

v3.3.0

v3.3.1

v3.3.2

v3.3.3

v3.3.4

v3.3.5

v3.3.6

v3.3.7

v3.3.8

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-49761.json"