cve-2024-41123
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-08-01 14:18
Modified
2024-12-27 16:03
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS score ?
0.25% (0.48226)
Summary
REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.2 has some DoS vulnerabilities when it parses an XML that has many specific characters such as whitespace character, `>]` and `]>`. The REXML gem 3.3.3 or later include the patches to fix these vulnerabilities.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-4xqq-m2hx-25v8Not Applicable
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-r55c-59qm-vjw6Vendor Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xghNot Applicable
security-advisories@github.comhttps://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/08/01/dos-rexml-cve-2024-41123Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241227-0005/
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