fkie_cve-2024-35176
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2024-05-16 16:15
Modified
2025-09-19 15:38
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
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