Rubygems.org is the Ruby community's gem hosting service. A Gem publisher can cause a Remote DoS when publishing a Gem. This is due to how Ruby reads the Manifest of Gem files when using Gem::Specification.from_yaml. from_yaml makes use of SafeYAML.load which allows YAML aliases inside the YAML-based metadata of a gem. YAML aliases allow for Denial of Service attacks with so-called `YAML-bombs` (comparable to Billion laughs attacks). This was patched. There is is no action required by users. This issue is also tracked as GHSL-2024-001 and was discovered by the GitHub security lab.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2024-35247 Rubygems.org is the Ruby community's gem hosting service. A Gem publisher can cause a Remote DoS when publishing a Gem. This is due to how Ruby reads the Manifest of Gem files when using Gem::Specification.from_yaml. from_yaml makes use of SafeYAML.load which allows YAML aliases inside the YAML-based metadata of a gem. YAML aliases allow for Denial of Service attacks with so-called `YAML-bombs` (comparable to Billion laughs attacks). This was patched. There is is no action required by users. This issue is also tracked as GHSL-2024-001 and was discovered by the GitHub security lab.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-02T03:07:46.784Z

Reserved: 2024-05-14T15:39:41.783Z

Link: CVE-2024-35221

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-06-06T18:59:26.763Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-05-29T21:15:49.017

Modified: 2024-11-21T09:19:58.003

Link: CVE-2024-35221

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-07-12T16:01:20Z

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