Posted by kou on 1 Aug 2024
There are some DoS vulnerabilities in REXML gem. These vulnerabilities have been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-41123. We strongly recommend upgrading the REXML gem.
Details
When parsing an XML document that has many specific characters such as whitespace character, >] and ]>, REXML gem may take long time.
Please update REXML gem to version 3.3.3 or later.
Affected versions
- REXML gem 3.3.2 or prior
Credits
Thanks to mprogrammer and scyoon for discovering these issues.
History
- Originally published at 2024-08-01 03:00:00 (UTC)