Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting ruby:2.5/rubygem-mysql2-doc package, versions <0:0.4.10-4.module+el8.9.0+19193+435404ae


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (24th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-RUBY-8409666
  • published2 Dec 2024
  • disclosed28 Oct 2024

Introduced: 28 Oct 2024

CVE-2024-49761  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1333  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 ruby:2.5/rubygem-mysql2-doc to version 0:0.4.10-4.module+el8.9.0+19193+435404ae or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:10850.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby:2.5/rubygem-mysql2-doc package and not the ruby:2.5/rubygem-mysql2-doc package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 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.

CVSS Scores

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