Security Advisory

CVE-2024-49761

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-10-28 14:10:23

Last updated 2025-11-03 20:41:10

Assigner GitHub_M

State PUBLISHED

Description

REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.9 has a ReDoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many digits between &# and x...; in a hex numeric character reference (&#x...;). This does not happen with Ruby 3.2 or later. Ruby 3.1 is the only affected maintained Ruby. The REXML gem 3.3.9 or later include the patch to fix the vulnerability.

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