CVE-2024-41946
REXML DoS vulnerability
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.68%
Description
REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem 3.3.2 has a DoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many entity expansions with SAX2 or pull parser API. The REXML gem 3.3.3 or later include the patch to fix the vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2024-41946
To remediate CVE-2024-41946, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/ruby-rexml—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-2024-41946 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.7%, 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 |