CVE-2024-49761 Vulnerability Details

  /     /     /  

CVE-2024-49761 Metadata Quick Info

CVE Published: 28/10/2024 | CVE Updated: 28/10/2024 | CVE Year: 2024
Source: GitHub_M | Vendor: ruby | Product: rexml
Status : PUBLISHED

---

CVE-2024-49761 Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS Version: 3.1 | Base Score: n/a
Vector: n/a

l➤ Exploitability Metrics:
    Attack Vector (AV)*
    Attack Complexity (AC)*
    Privileges Required (PR)*
    User Interaction (UI)*
    Scope (S)*

l➤ Impact Metrics:
    Confidentiality Impact (C)*
    Integrity Impact (I)*
    Availability Impact (A)*

Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-ID: CWE-1333
CWE Name: CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Source: ruby

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

CAPEC-ID:
CAPEC Description:


Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database).