CVE-2025-10990

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-10990
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-10990.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-10990
Aliases
Downstream
Published
2026-02-27T13:32:02.309Z
Modified
2026-07-08T07:34:22.161637092Z
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
Rexml: rexml: denial of service via inefficient regex parsing
Details

A flaw was found in REXML. A remote attacker could exploit inefficient regular expression (regex) parsing when processing hex numeric character references (&#x...;) in XML documents. This could lead to a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS), impacting the availability of the affected component. This issue is the result of an incomplete fix for CVE-2024-49761.

Database specific
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/10xxx/CVE-2025-10990.json",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-1333"
    ],
    "cna_assigner": "redhat"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/ruby/rexml

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/ruby/rexml
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
Database specific
{
    "source": "REFERENCES"
}

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-2025-10990.json"