VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2024-35176

CVSS score5.3 MEDIUM
EPSS probability2.06%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2024-05-16
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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.

Weakness classification

  • security-advisories@github.com: CWE-400

Primary references