CVE-2024-35176

CVSS V2 None CVSS V3 None

Description

REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.2.6 has a denial of service vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many `<`s in an attribute value. Those who need to parse untrusted XMLs may be impacted to this vulnerability. The REXML gem 3.2.7 or later include the patch to fix this vulnerability. As a workaround, don't parse untrusted XMLs.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2024-35176

Assigner
GitHub_M

Vulnerability Status
PUBLISHED

Published Version
2024-05-16T15:13:25.100Z

Last Modified Date
2024-06-04T17:33:25.049Z

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-400	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/400.html
CWE-770	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/770.html

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/4325835f92f3f142ebd91a3fdba4e1f1ab7f1cfb	x_refsource_MISC
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/05/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-35176	x_refsource_MISC

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-35176
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-35176

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2024-06-26 13:32:10				Added to TrackCVE