CVE-2024-35176

REXML contains a denial of service vulnerability

Published May 16, 2024 CVSS 3.1 · 5.3 Medium EPSS 2.1% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-4018-1 ruby2.7 security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2024-1802 REXML contains a denial of service vulnerability
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh REXML contains a denial of service vulnerability
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7091-1 Ruby vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7091-2 Ruby vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7418-1 Ruby vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7734-1 Ruby vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7840-1 Ruby vulnerabilities
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.03575}

epss

{'score': 0.0367}

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::highavailability
Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Nov 3, 2025, 8:37 PM
Reserved
May 10, 2024, 2:24 PM
Status
Modified
Published
May 16, 2024, 4:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 7:34 AM
Severity
Low
Public date
May 16, 2024, 12:00 AM