Posted by kou on 16 May 2024
There is a DoS vulnerability in REXML gem. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-35176. We strongly recommend upgrading the REXML gem.
Details
When parsing an XML document that has many < in an attribute value, REXML gem may take long time.
Please update REXML gem to version 3.2.7 or later.
Affected versions
- REXML gem 3.2.6 or prior
Credits
Thanks to mprogrammer for discovering this issue.
History
- Originally published at 2024-05-16 05:00:00 (UTC)