Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting ruby-rexml package, versions <3.3.9-r0
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE319-RUBYREXML-8366557
- published 12 Nov 2024
- disclosed 28 Oct 2024
Introduced: 28 Oct 2024
New CVE-2024-49761 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 before 3.3.9 has a ReDoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many digits between &# and x...; in a hex numeric character reference (&#x...;). This does not happen with Ruby 3.2 or later. Ruby 3.1 is the only affected maintained Ruby. The REXML gem 3.3.9 or later include the patch to fix the vulnerability.