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CVE-2024-41946

Aug. 1, 2024, 4:45 p.m.

CVSS Score

5.3 / 10

Product(s) Impacted

REXML gem for Ruby

  • 3.3.2

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.

Weaknesses

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.

CWE ID: 400

Date

Published: Aug. 1, 2024, 3:15 p.m.

Last Modified: Aug. 1, 2024, 4:45 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

security-advisories@github.com

CVSS Data

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score
5.3
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
Base Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS Vector String

The CVSS vector string provides an in-depth view of the vulnerability metrics.

View Vector String

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

References

https://github.com/ security-advisories@github.com

https://github.com/ security-advisories@github.com

https://www.ruby-lang.org/ security-advisories@github.com

https://www.ruby-lang.org/ security-advisories@github.com