CVE-2024-35176CWE-400CWE-770

REXML contains a denial of service vulnerability

Medium · published May 16, 2024

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
2%
Percentile
81.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.2.6 has a denial of service vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many `<`s in an attribute value. Those who need to parse untrusted XMLs may be impacted to this vulnerability. The REXML gem 3.2.7 or later include the patch to fix this vulnerability. As a workaround, don't parse untrusted XMLs.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.02064 · 81.2th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption; CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2024-05-16T15:13Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 MAY 15:13Z
    REXML contains a denial of service vulnerability
    cvelistv5