CVE-2024-41123 Information

Description

REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.2 has some DoS vulnerabilities when it parses an XML that has many specific characters such as whitespace character >] and ]>. The REXML gem 3.3.3 or later include the patches to fix these vulnerabilities.

Reference

https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-r55c-59qm-vjw6 https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-4xqq-m2hx-25v8 https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/08/01/dos-rexml-cve-2024-41123