CVE-2024-41946
ADVISORY - githubSummary
Impact
The REXML gem before 3.3.2 has a DoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many entity expansions with SAX2 or pull parser API.
If you need to parse untrusted XMLs with SAX2 or pull parser API, you may be impacted to this vulnerability.
Patches
The REXML gem 3.3.3 or later include the patch to fix the vulnerability.
Workarounds
Don't parse untrusted XMLs with SAX2 or pull parser API.
References
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2008/08/23/dos-vulnerability-in-rexml/ : This is a similar vulnerability
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/08/01/dos-rexml-cve-2024-41946/: An announce on www.ruby-lang.org
EPSS Score: 0.00321 (0.548)
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
ADVISORY - nist
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
ADVISORY - github
ADVISORY - gitlab
ADVISORY - redhat
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
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