GHSA-4xqq-m2hx-25v8
Suggest an improvement- Source
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4xqq-m2hx-25v8
- Import Source
- https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2024/07/GHSA-4xqq-m2hx-25v8/GHSA-4xqq-m2hx-25v8.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-4xqq-m2hx-25v8
- Aliases
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2024-07-16T19:49:15Z
- Modified
- 2025-01-17T22:04:47.752378Z
- Severity
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- 4.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS Calculator
- 6.9 (Medium) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- REXML denial of service vulnerability
- Details
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Impact
The REXML gem before 3.3.1 has some DoS vulnerabilities when it parses an XML that has many specific characters such as
<,0and%>.If you need to parse untrusted XMLs, you may be impacted to these vulnerabilities.
Patches
The REXML gem 3.3.2 or later include the patches to fix these vulnerabilities.
Workarounds
Don't parse untrusted XMLs.
References
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh : This is a similar vulnerability
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/07/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-39908/
- Database specific
{ "nvd_published_at": "2024-07-16T18:15:08Z", "severity": "MODERATE", "github_reviewed_at": "2024-07-16T19:49:15Z", "github_reviewed": true, "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-400" ] }- References
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- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-4xqq-m2hx-25v8
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-39908
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/releases/tag/v3.3.2
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rexml/CVE-2024-39908.yml
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250117-0008
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/07/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-39908
Affected packages
RubyGems / rexml
Package
- Name
- rexml
- Purl
- pkg:gem/rexml