🛡️ CVE-2024-39908
🟡 CVSS 4.3 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-400 NVD
4.3
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.1 has some DoS vulnerabilities when it parses an XML that has many specific characters such as ``. If you need to parse untrusted XMLs, you many be impacted to these vulnerabilities. The REXML gem 3.3.2 or later include the patches to fix these vulnerabilities. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should avoid parsing untrusted XML strings.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 4.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE CWE-400
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-07-16
Updated 2026-06-15
Modified 2025-11-03
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
bootstrap-os
rexml 3.3.2

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