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CVE-2024-35176

MediumPublished

REXML contains a denial of service vulnerability

Published: May 16, 2024
Updated: Nov 3, 2025
Assigning CNA: GitHub_M
Evidence observed: Aug 8, 2026

Primary CVSS

5.3/ 10Medium

nvd · CVSS 3.1

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

EPSS probability estimate

2.1%

Low · next 30 days

Percentile: 80.3%
Model date: Sep 21, 2026

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Summary

REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.2.6 has a denial of service vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many `<`s in an attribute value. Those who need to parse untrusted XMLs may be impacted to this vulnerability. The REXML gem 3.2.7 or later include the patch to fix this vulnerability. As a workaround, don't parse untrusted XMLs.

Sources

CVE-2024-35176PoC
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