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CVE-2024-35176

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Date: May 16, 2024

REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.2.6 has a denial of service vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many `<`s in an attribute value. Those who need to parse untrusted XMLs may be impacted to this vulnerability. The REXML gem 3.2.7 or later include the patch to fix this vulnerability. As a workaround, don't parse untrusted XMLs.

Language: Ruby

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Related Resources (11)

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/05/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-35176
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rexml/CVE-2024-41123.yml
https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh
https://github.com/ruby/rexml
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/08/01/dos-rexml-cve-2024-41123
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-41123
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-35176
https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-r55c-59qm-vjw6
https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-4xqq-m2hx-25v8
https://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/4325835f92f3f142ebd91a3fdba4e1f1ab7f1cfb
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2024-35176

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')

CWE-400

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

CWE-770

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): LOW

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