Asymmetric denial of service - ReDoS In ruby-rexml
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.
Mitigation
Update Impact
Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.
Ecosystem | Component | Affected version | Patched versions |
|---|---|---|---|
 alpine v3.22 | 3.3.9-r0 | ||
alpine v3.21 | 3.3.9-r0 | ||
 debian 14 | 3.3.6-1 | ||
alpine v3.19 | 3.3.9-r0 | ||
alpine v3.20 | 3.3.9-r0 | ||
debian 12 | - | ||
debian 13 | 3.3.6-1 | ||
 rubygems | 3.3.9 | ||
alpine v3.23 | 3.3.9-r0 | ||
 rpm rhel9 | 0:3.0.7-163.el9_5 |
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