CVE-2024-35176
MEDIUM5.3EPSS 8.4%ruby2.7 - security update
Published: 5/16/2024Modified: 3/9/2026
Also known as:GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xghCGA-94h4-f4cw-hpp4DEBIAN-CVE-2024-35176DEBIAN-CVE-2024-39908DEBIAN-CVE-2024-41123DEBIAN-CVE-2024-41946DEBIAN-CVE-2024-43398DEBIAN-CVE-2024-49761DLA-4018-1
Description
### Impact The REXML gem before 3.2.6 has a DoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many `>`s in an attribute value. If you need to parse untrusted XMLs, you may be impacted to this vulnerability. ### Patches The REXML gem 3.2.7 or later include the patch to fix this vulnerability. ### Workarounds Don't parse untrusted XMLs. ### References * https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/05/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-35176/
Affected packages (4)
- Debian/ruby2.7from 0, < 2.7.4-1+deb11u3
- Debian/ruby2.7from 0, < 2.7.4-1+deb11u3
- Debian/ruby3.1from 0
- RubyGems/rexmlfrom 0, < 3.2.7
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
References (8)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-35176
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-35176
- PATCHhttps://github.com/ruby/rexml
- WEBhttps://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/4325835f92f3f142ebd91a3fdba4e1f1ab7f1cfb
- WEBhttps://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh
- WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00011.html
- WEBhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250306-0001
- WEBhttps://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/05/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-35176