Ruby: CVE-2024-35176: DoS in REXML

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There is a DoS vulnerability in REXML gem. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-35176. We strongly recommend upgrading the REXML gem.

Details

When parsing an XML document that has many < in an attribute value, REXML gem may take long time.

Please update REXML gem to version 3.2.7 or later.

Affected versions

• REXML gem 3.2.6 or prior

Credits

Thanks to mprogrammer for discovering this issue.

History

• Originally published at 2024-05-16 05:00:00 (UTC)

Posted by kou on 16 May 2024

Get the full details here: CVE-2024-35176: DoS in REXML