CVE-2024-49761 (GCVE-0-2024-49761)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-10-28 14:10
Modified
2025-11-03 20:41
Severity ?
6.6 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
CWE
  • CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Summary
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.
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