CVE-2024-41946

Description

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.

References

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/08/01/dos-rexml-cve-2024-41946

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2008/08/23/dos-vulnerability-in-rexml

https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-5866-49gr-22v4

https://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/033d1909a8f259d5a7c53681bcaf14f13bcf0368

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3