Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion') The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package puppet-datacat.src (opens in a new tab)
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- published28 Feb 2026
- disclosed22 Aug 2024
Introduced: 22 Aug 2024
CVE-2024-43398 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream puppet-datacat.src package and not the puppet-datacat.src package as distributed by RHEL.
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.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2307297
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-43398
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/releases/tag/v3.3.6
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vmwr-mc7x-5vc3
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250103-0006/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00011.html