GHSA-5866-49gr-22v4
REXML DoS vulnerability
Quick fix
GHSA-5866-49gr-22v4 — rexml: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
bundle update rexmlDetails
### 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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Affected packages
References
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-5866-49gr-22v4[WEB]
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-41946[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/033d1909a8f259d5a7c53681bcaf14f13bcf0368[WEB]
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml[PACKAGE]
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rexml/CVE-2024-41946.yml[WEB]
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00011.html[WEB]
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250117-0007[WEB]
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2008/08/23/dos-vulnerability-in-rexml[WEB]
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/08/01/dos-rexml-cve-2024-41946[WEB]