MEDIUM5.3
GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh
REXML contains a denial of service vulnerability
Quick fix
GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh — rexml: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
bundle update rexmlDetails
### Impact
The REXML gem before 3.2.6 has a DoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many `>`s in an attribute value.
If you need to parse untrusted XMLs, you may be impacted to this vulnerability.
### Patches
The REXML gem 3.2.7 or later include the patch to fix this vulnerability.
### Workarounds
Don't parse untrusted XMLs.
### References
* https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/05/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-35176/
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Affected packages
References
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh[WEB]
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-35176[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/4325835f92f3f142ebd91a3fdba4e1f1ab7f1cfb[WEB]
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml[PACKAGE]
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00011.html[WEB]
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250306-0001[WEB]
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/05/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-35176[WEB]