CVE-2024-41123
REXML DoS vulnerability
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.24%
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.
How to fix CVE-2024-41123
To remediate CVE-2024-41123, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 3.3.9-r0 or later
- —upgrade to 2.7.4-1+deb11u3 or later
- —no fix listed
- —upgrade to 3.3.5-1 or later
- —upgrade to 3.3.3 or later
Is CVE-2024-41123 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (5)
- from 0, < 3.3.9-r0
- from 0, < 2.7.4-1+deb11u3
- from 0
- from 0, < 3.3.5-1
- from 0, < 3.3.3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |