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REXML denial of service vulnerability

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jul 16, 2024 in ruby/rexml • Updated Aug 5, 2024

Package

bundler rexml (RubyGems)

Affected versions

< 3.3.2

Patched versions

3.3.2

Description

Impact

The REXML gem before 3.3.1 has some DoS vulnerabilities when it parses an XML that has many specific characters such as <, 0 and %>.

If you need to parse untrusted XMLs, you may be impacted to these vulnerabilities.

Patches

The REXML gem 3.3.2 or later include the patches to fix these vulnerabilities.

Workarounds

Don't parse untrusted XMLs.

References

References

@kou kou published to ruby/rexml Jul 16, 2024
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 16, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jul 16, 2024
Reviewed Jul 16, 2024
Last updated Aug 5, 2024

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

EPSS score

0.043%
(10th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-39908

GHSA ID

GHSA-4xqq-m2hx-25v8

Source code

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