CVE-2024-35176 Affecting ruby3.2 package, versions <3.2.3-1ubuntu0.24.04.3


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2404-RUBY32-8302712
  • published5 Nov 2024
  • disclosed16 May 2024

Introduced: 16 May 2024

CVE-2024-35176  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:24.04 ruby3.2 to version 3.2.3-1ubuntu0.24.04.3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby3.2 package and not the ruby3.2 package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:24.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

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 &lt;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.

CVSS Scores

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