REXML DoS vulnerability
Date: 2024-08
Affected: rubygems/rexml
Attack vector: dos
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: Medium
CVE: CVE-2024-35176
CVE-2024-39908
CVE-2024-41123
CVE-2024-41946
CWE: CWE-400
CWE-770
CVSS: 7.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

### Impact The REXML gem before 3.3.2 has a DoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many entity expansions with SAX2 or pull parser API. If you need to parse untrusted XMLs with SAX2 or pull parser API, you may be impacted to this vulnerability. ### Patches The REXML gem 3.3.3 or later include the patch to fix the vulnerability. ### Workarounds Don't parse untrusted XMLs with SAX2 or pull parser API. ### References * https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2008/08/23/dos-vulnerability-in-rexml/ : This is a similar vulnerability * https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/08/01/dos-rexml-cve-2024-41946/: An announce on www.ruby-lang.org


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