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CVE-2024-39908

4.3 mediumEPSS 1.5%

Medium (4.3). EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in rexml 3.3.2.

REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. 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 many be impacted to these vulnerabilities. The REXML gem 3.3.2 or later include the patches to fix these vulnerabilities. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should avoid parsing untrusted XML strings.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

4.3 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS
1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 74% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-400
Published
Modified
Record from
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Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-4xqq-m2hx-25v8RubyGemsrexml<3.3.23.3.2

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