Description

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.

INFO

Published Date :

2024-05-16T15:13:25.100Z

Last Modified :

2025-11-03T20:37:32.949Z

Source :

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AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2024-35176 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Redhat
  • Enterprise Linux
Ruby-lang
  • Rexml
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2024-35176.

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https://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/4325835f92f3f142ebd91a3fdba4e1f1ab7f1cfb cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00011.html cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-35176 cve-icon
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250306-0001/ cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-35176 cve-icon
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/05/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-35176 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
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