GHSA-r55c-59qm-vjw6
REXML DoS vulnerability
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Impact
The REXML gem before 3.3.2 has some DoS vulnerabilities when it parses an XML that has many specific characters such as whitespace character, `>]` and `]>`.
If you need to parse untrusted XMLs, you may be impacted to these vulnerabilities.
### Patches
The REXML gem 3.3.3 or later include the patches to fix these vulnerabilities.
### Workarounds
Don't parse untrusted XMLs.
### References
* https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh : This is a similar vulnerability
* https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-4xqq-m2hx-25v8 : This is a similar vulnerability
* https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/08/01/dos-rexml-cve-2024-41123/: An announce on www.ruby-lang.org
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-4xqq-m2hx-25v8
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-r55c-59qm-vjw6
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-41123
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rexml/CVE-2024-41123.yml
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00011.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241227-0005
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/08/01/dos-rexml-cve-2024-41123