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CVE-2024-35176

5.3 mediumEPSS 2.1%

Medium (5.3) in ruby-lang rexml. EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in rexml 3.2.7.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.3 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS
2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 81% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs
CWE-400, CWE-770
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xghRubyGemsrexml<3.2.73.2.7

References

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