CVE-2024-41946 Information

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.

Reference

https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-5866-49gr-22v4 https://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/033d1909a8f259d5a7c53681bcaf14f13bcf0368 https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2008/08/23/dos-vulnerability-in-rexml https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/08/01/dos-rexml-cve-2024-41946