VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2025-10990
CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability0.55%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2026-02-27
Last modified2026-06-26
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
A flaw was found in REXML. A remote attacker could exploit inefficient regular expression (regex) parsing when processing hex numeric character references (&#x...;) in XML documents. This could lead to a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS), impacting the availability of the affected component. This issue is the result of an incomplete fix for CVE-2024-49761.
Weakness classification
- CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity