Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package rubygems (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published5 Aug 2025
- disclosed16 May 2024
Introduced: 16 May 2024
CVE-2024-35176 (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 rubygems package and not the rubygems package as distributed by RHEL.
REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.2.6 has a denial of service vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many <s in an attribute value. Those who need to parse untrusted XMLs may be impacted to this vulnerability. The REXML gem 3.2.7 or later include the patch to fix this vulnerability. As a workaround, don't parse untrusted XMLs.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2280894
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-35176
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250306-0001/
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/4325835f92f3f142ebd91a3fdba4e1f1ab7f1cfb
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00011.html
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/05/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-35176