CVE-2024-43398

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

22/08/2024

Last modified:

03/11/2025

Description

REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.6 has a DoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many deep elements that have same local name attributes. If you need to parse untrusted XMLs with tree parser API like REXML::Document.new, you may be impacted to this vulnerability. If you use other parser APIs such as stream parser API and SAX2 parser API, this vulnerability is not affected. The REXML gem 3.3.6 or later include the patch to fix the vulnerability.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.90 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

5.90

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:rexml::::::ruby::*		3.3.6 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:netapp:bootstrap_os:-:::::::*
cpe:2.3:h:netapp:hci_compute_node:-:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2024-43398

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools