CVE-2024-41946

Published: Aug 1, 2024Modified: Nov 3, 2025

7.5

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 3.6

Source: NVD

Description

REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem 3.3.2 has a DoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many entity expansions with SAX2 or pull parser API. The REXML gem 3.3.3 or later include the patch to fix the vulnerability.

Affected (1)

Products: Ruby Lang: Rexml

Ruby Lang

1 product

Rexml

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Ruby Lang Rexml	Before 3.3.3

Related CWEs

CWE-400

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.

References (6)

https://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/033d1909a8f259d5a7c53681bcaf14f13bcf0368

Source: security-advisories@github.com

Patch

https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-5866-49gr-22v4

Source: security-advisories@github.com

Vendor Advisory

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2008/08/23/dos-vulnerability-in-rexml

Source: security-advisories@github.com

Not Applicable

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/08/01/dos-rexml-cve-2024-41946

Source: security-advisories@github.com

Vendor Advisory

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00011.html

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250117-0007/

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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