OpenCVE

REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.1 has some DoS vulnerabilities when it parses an XML that has many specific characters such as `<`, `0` and `%>`. If you need to parse untrusted XMLs, you many be impacted to these vulnerabilities. The REXML gem 3.3.2 or later include the patches to fix these vulnerabilities. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should avoid parsing untrusted XML strings.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Redhat	Enterprise Linux
Ruby-lang	Rexml

No data.

Package	CPE	Advisory	Released Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
ruby:3.3-8100020240906074654.489197e6	cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8	RHSA-2024:6784	2024-09-18T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
ruby:3.3-9040020240906110954.9	cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9	RHSA-2024:6785	2024-09-18T00:00:00Z

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-4xqq-m2hx-25v8
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-39908
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-39908
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/07/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-39908

History

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 06:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Redhat Redhat enterprise Linux
CPEs		cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8 cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
Vendors & Products		Redhat Redhat enterprise Linux

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2024-07-16T17:28:07.372Z

Updated: 2024-08-02T04:33:11.796Z

Reserved: 2024-07-02T19:37:18.600Z

Link: CVE-2024-39908

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-07-16T18:03:50.381Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-07-16T18:15:08.167

Modified: 2024-07-17T13:34:20.520

Link: CVE-2024-39908

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2024-07-16T06:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2024-39908 - Bugzilla

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