DoS vulnerabilities in REXML

There are some DoS vulnerabilities in REXML gem.
These vulnerabilities have been assigned the CVE identifier
CVE-2024-41123. We strongly recommend upgrading the REXML gem.

Details

When parsing an XML document that has many specific characters such
as whitespace character, >] and ]>, REXML gem may take long time.

Please update REXML gem to version 3.3.3 or later.

Affected versions

• REXML gem 3.3.2 or prior

Credits

Thanks to mprogrammer and scyoon for discovering these issues.

History

Originally published at 2024-08-01 03:00:00 (UTC)