CVE-2024-39908

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')

Publication date:

16/07/2024

Last modified:

03/11/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

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

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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

Base Score 3.x

4.30

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:rexml::::::ruby::*		3.3.2 (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-2024-39908

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools