Description

REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.6 has a DoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many deep elements that have same local name attributes. If you need to parse untrusted XMLs with tree parser API like REXML::Document.new, you may be impacted to this vulnerability. If you use other parser APIs such as stream parser API and SAX2 parser API, this vulnerability is not affected. The REXML gem 3.3.6 or later include the patch to fix the vulnerability.

INFO

Published Date :

2024-08-22T14:14:03.588Z

Last Modified :

2025-11-03T20:38:50.990Z

Source :

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AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2024-43398 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Netapp
  • Bootstrap Os
  • Hci Compute Node
Redhat
  • Enterprise Linux
  • Rhel E4s
  • Rhel Eus
  • Rhel Tus
Ruby-lang
  • Rexml
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2024-43398.

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https://github.com/ruby/rexml/releases/tag/v3.3.6 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vmwr-mc7x-5vc3 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-2024-43398 cve-icon
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250103-0006/ cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-43398 cve-icon
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