Fluid Attacks Database

Description

REXML denial of service vulnerability

Impact

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 may be impacted to these vulnerabilities.

Patches

The REXML gem 3.3.2 or later include the patches to fix these vulnerabilities.

Workarounds

Don't parse untrusted XMLs.

References

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem	Package	Affected version	Patched versions
rubygems	rexml	>=0 <3.3.2	3.3.2
alpine v3.20	ruby-rexml	=3.2.5-r0 \|\| =3.2.5-r1 \|\| =3.2.5-r2 \|\| =3.2.5-r3 \|\| =3.2.6-r0 \|\| =3.2.6-r1 \|\| =3.2.9-r0 \|\| >=0 <3.3.9-r0	3.3.9-r0
debian 12	ruby3.1	=3.1.2-7 \|\| =3.1.2-7+deb12u1 \|\| =3.1.2-7+hurd.1 \|\| =3.1.2-8 \|\| =3.1.2-8.1~exp1 \|\| =3.1.2-8.3 \|\| =3.1.2-8.4 \|\| =3.1.2-8.5	-
alpine v3.22	ruby-rexml	=3.2.5-r0 \|\| =3.2.5-r1 \|\| =3.2.5-r2 \|\| =3.2.5-r3 \|\| =3.2.6-r0 \|\| =3.2.6-r1 \|\| =3.2.9-r0 \|\| >=0 <3.3.9-r0	3.3.9-r0
alpine v3.19	ruby-rexml	=3.2.5-r0 \|\| =3.2.5-r1 \|\| =3.2.5-r2 \|\| =3.2.5-r3 \|\| =3.2.6-r0 \|\| >=0 <3.3.9-r0	3.3.9-r0
alpine v3.21	ruby-rexml	=3.2.5-r0 \|\| =3.2.5-r1 \|\| =3.2.5-r2 \|\| =3.2.5-r3 \|\| =3.2.6-r0 \|\| =3.2.6-r1 \|\| =3.2.9-r0 \|\| >=0 <3.3.9-r0	3.3.9-r0
debian 11	ruby2.7	=2.7.4-1 \|\| =2.7.4-1+deb11u1 \|\| =2.7.4-1+deb11u2 \|\| >=0 <2.7.4-1+deb11u3	2.7.4-1+deb11u3
debian 14	ruby3.3	>=0 <3.3.5-1	3.3.5-1
debian 13	ruby3.3	>=0 <3.3.5-1	3.3.5-1
alpine v3.23	ruby-rexml	=3.2.5-r0 \|\| =3.2.5-r1 \|\| =3.2.5-r2 \|\| =3.2.5-r3 \|\| =3.2.6-r0 \|\| =3.2.6-r1 \|\| =3.2.9-r0 \|\| >=0 <3.3.9-r0	3.3.9-r0

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