ubuntu-cve-2024-35176
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2024-05-16 16:15
Modified
2026-05-20 15:09
Summary
Details

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.

Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
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  "aliases": [],
  "details": "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 `\u003c`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\u0027t parse untrusted XMLs.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2024-35176",
  "modified": "2026-05-20T15:09:03Z",
  "published": "2024-05-16T16:15:00Z",
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