FKIE_CVE-2025-10990

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-02-27 14:16 - Updated: 2026-06-26 00:16
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A flaw was found in REXML. A remote attacker could exploit inefficient regular expression (regex) parsing when processing hex numeric character references (&#x...;) in XML documents. This could lead to a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS), impacting the availability of the affected component. This issue is the result of an incomplete fix for CVE-2024-49761.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17606
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17613
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17693
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-10990
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2398216
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/ce59f2eb1aeb371fe1643414f06618dbe031979f
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-2rxp-v6pw-ch6m
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/10/28/redos-rexml-cve-2024-49761/
Impacted products
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