CVE-2024-43398 Affecting ruby-rexml package, versions <3.3.9-r0
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE320-RUBYREXML-8366552
- published 12 Nov 2024
- disclosed 22 Aug 2024
Introduced: 22 Aug 2024
CVE-2024-43398 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.20 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:3.20 relevant fixed versions and status.
REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.6 has a DoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many deep elements that have same local name attributes. If you need to parse untrusted XMLs with tree parser API like REXML::Document.new, you may be impacted to this vulnerability. If you use other parser APIs such as stream parser API and SAX2 parser API, this vulnerability is not affected. The REXML gem 3.3.6 or later include the patch to fix the vulnerability.