CVE-2024-41123

Summary

REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.2 has some DoS vulnerabilities when it parses an XML that has many specific characters such as whitespace character, >] and ]>. The REXML gem 3.3.3 or later include the patches to fix these vulnerabilities.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-400: CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical Impact: partial

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241227-0005/
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00011.html

References

• https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-r55c-59qm-vjw6
• https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-4xqq-m2hx-25v8
• https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh
• https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/08/01/dos-rexml-cve-2024-41123

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