Resource Exhaustion Affecting ruby-rexml package, versions <3.3.9-r0
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EPSS
0.06% (25th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE319-RUBYREXML-8366555
- published 12 Nov 2024
- disclosed 1 Aug 2024
Introduced: 1 Aug 2024
CVE-2024-41946 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.19 ruby-rexml to version 3.3.9-r0 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby-rexml package and not the ruby-rexml package as distributed by Alpine.
See How to fix? for Alpine:3.19 relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
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