CVE-2024-41946

Summary

REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem 3.3.2 has a DoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many entity expansions with SAX2 or pull parser API. The REXML gem 3.3.3 or later include the patch to fix the vulnerability.

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-20250117-0007/
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00011.html

References

• https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-5866-49gr-22v4
• https://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/033d1909a8f259d5a7c53681bcaf14f13bcf0368
• https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2008/08/23/dos-vulnerability-in-rexml
• https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/08/01/dos-rexml-cve-2024-41946

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