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CVE-2024-41946
REXML DoS vulnerability
Medium5.3EPSS 1.2%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- GitHub_M
Description
REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem 3.3.2 has a DoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many entity expansions with SAX2 or pull parser API. The REXML gem 3.3.3 or later include the patch to fix the vulnerability.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 8 days later
· 8 days later
Published
- 15 months later
· 15 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 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 32% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
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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-5866-49gr-22v4 (opens in a new tab)
References (6)
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-5866-49gr-22v4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/033d1909a8f259d5a7c53681bcaf14f13bcf0368 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2008/08/23/dos-vulnerability-in-rexml (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/08/01/dos-rexml-cve-2024-41946 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250117-0007/ (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-5866-49gr-22v4 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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