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ghsa-c2f4-jgmc-q2r5

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-09-17 18:26

Modified

2025-09-17 20:00

Severity ?

2.7 (Low) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U

Summary

REXML has DoS condition when parsing malformed XML file

Details

Impact

The REXML gems from 3.3.3 to 3.4.1 have a DoS vulnerability when parsing XML containing multiple XML declarations. If you need to parse untrusted XMLs, you may be impacted to these vulnerabilities.

Patches

REXML gems 3.4.2 or later include the patches to fix these vulnerabilities.

Workarounds

Don't parse untrusted XMLs.

References

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/09/18/dos-rexml-cve-2025-58767/ : An announcement on www.ruby-lang.org

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  "modified": "2025-09-17T20:00:56Z",
  "published": "2025-09-17T18:26:48Z",
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    },
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    },
    {
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}

CVE-2025-58767 (GCVE-0-2025-58767)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-09-17 17:45

Modified

2025-09-17 17:54

Severity ?

1.2 (Low) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U

CWE

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Summary

REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gems from 3.3.3 to 3.4.1 has a DoS vulnerability when parsing XML containing multiple XML declarations. If you need to parse untrusted XMLs, you may be impacted to these vulnerabilities. The REXML gem 3.4.2 or later include the patches to fix these vulnerabilities.

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-c2f4-jgmc-q2r5	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/5859bdeac792687eaf93d8e8f0b7e3c1e2ed5c23	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	ruby	rexml	Version: >= 3.3.3, < 3.4.2

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Not patched: This vulnerability was not successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.

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ghsa-c2f4-jgmc-q2r5

Vulnerability from github

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Workarounds

References

CVE-2025-58767 (GCVE-0-2025-58767)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

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