DEBIAN-CVE-2024-49761

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-49761
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2024-49761.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2024-49761
Upstream
Published
2024-10-28T15:15:05Z
Modified
2025-09-30T05:19:40.696640Z
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

Debian:11 / ruby2.7

Package

Name
ruby2.7
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/ruby2.7?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.7.4-1+deb11u3

Affected versions

2.*

2.7.4-1
2.7.4-1+deb11u1
2.7.4-1+deb11u2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / ruby3.1

Package

Name
ruby3.1
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/ruby3.1?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*

3.1.2-7
3.1.2-7+deb12u1
3.1.2-7+hurd.1
3.1.2-8
3.1.2-8.1~exp1
3.1.2-8.3
3.1.2-8.4
3.1.2-8.5

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / ruby3.3

Package

Name
ruby3.3
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/ruby3.3?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.3.6-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / ruby3.3

Package

Name
ruby3.3
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/ruby3.3?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.3.6-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}