CVE-2024-35176
REXML contains a denial of service vulnerability
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- GitHub_M
Description
REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.2.6 has a denial of service vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many `<`s in an attribute value. Those who need to parse untrusted XMLs may be impacted to this vulnerability. The REXML gem 3.2.7 or later include the patch to fix this vulnerability. As a workaround, don't parse untrusted XMLs.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 6 days later
· 6 days later
Published
- 18 months later
· 18 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.1% · top 19% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Weakness
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemsrexmlGHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh (opens in a new tab)
References (5)
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/4325835f92f3f142ebd91a3fdba4e1f1ab7f1cfb (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/05/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-35176 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250306-0001/ (opens in a new tab)
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00011.html (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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