Resource Exhaustion Affecting ruby-3.1 package, versions <3.1.6-r2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.06% (25th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-WOLFILATEST-RUBY31-7851928
  • published 29 Aug 2024
  • disclosed 1 Aug 2024

How to fix?

Upgrade Wolfi ruby-3.1 to version 3.1.6-r2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby-3.1 package and not the ruby-3.1 package as distributed by Wolfi. See How to fix? for Wolfi relevant fixed versions and status.

REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.2 has some DoS vulnerabilities when it parses an XML that has many specific characters such as whitespace character, &gt;] and ]&gt;. The REXML gem 3.3.3 or later include the patches to fix these vulnerabilities.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

Recommended
7.5 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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Red Hat

5.3 medium
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SUSE

5.3 medium