CVE-2024-41123: CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in ruby rexml
REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.2 has some DoS vulnerabilities when it parses an XML that has many specific characters such as whitespace character, `>]` and `]>`. The REXML gem 3.3.3 or later include the patches to fix these vulnerabilities.
CVE-2024-41123: CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in ruby rexml
Description
REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.2 has some DoS vulnerabilities when it parses an XML that has many specific characters such as whitespace character, `>]` and `]>`. The REXML gem 3.3.3 or later include the patches to fix these vulnerabilities.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- GitHub_M
- Date Reserved
- 2024-07-15T15:53:28.323Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
Threat ID: 6909214efe7723195e054586
Added to database: 11/3/2025, 9:40:30 PM
Last updated: 11/3/2025, 9:41:49 PM
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