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Vulnerability details: VCID-b44n-frjk-qfdy
Vulnerability ID VCID-b44n-frjk-qfdy
Aliases CVE-2024-35176
GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh
Summary REXML contains a denial of service vulnerability ### Impact The REXML gem before 3.2.6 has a DoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many `<`s in an attribute value. If you need to parse untrusted XMLs, you may be impacted to this vulnerability. ### Patches The REXML gem 3.2.7 or later include the patch to fix this vulnerability. ### Workarounds Don't parse untrusted XMLs. ### References * https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/05/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-35176/
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 6.2
Risk 3.1
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (4)
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
cvssv3 5.3 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2024-35176.json
epss 0.03575 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-35176
epss 0.03575 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-35176
epss 0.03575 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-35176
epss 0.03575 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-35176
cvssv3.1 5.3 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv3.1_qr MODERATE https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh
cvssv3.1 5.3 https://github.com/ruby/rexml
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/ruby/rexml
cvssv3.1 5.3 https://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/4325835f92f3f142ebd91a3fdba4e1f1ab7f1cfb
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/4325835f92f3f142ebd91a3fdba4e1f1ab7f1cfb
ssvc Track https://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/4325835f92f3f142ebd91a3fdba4e1f1ab7f1cfb
cvssv3 5.3 https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh
cvssv3.1 5.3 https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh
cvssv3.1_qr MODERATE https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh
ssvc Track https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh
cvssv3.1 5.3 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-35176
generic_textual MODERATE https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-35176
cvssv3.1 5.3 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250306-0001
generic_textual MODERATE https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250306-0001
cvssv3.1 5.3 https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/05/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-35176
generic_textual MODERATE https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/05/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-35176
ssvc Track https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/05/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-35176
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2024-35176.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-35176
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-35176
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://github.com/ruby/rexml
https://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/4325835f92f3f142ebd91a3fdba4e1f1ab7f1cfb
https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-35176
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250306-0001
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250306-0001/
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/05/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-35176
1071626 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1071626
2280894 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2280894
GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh
RHSA-2024:4499 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4499
RHSA-2024:5338 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:5338
USN-7091-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/7091-1/
USN-7091-2 https://usn.ubuntu.com/7091-2/
USN-7418-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/7418-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2024-35176.json
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://github.com/ruby/rexml
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/4325835f92f3f142ebd91a3fdba4e1f1ab7f1cfb
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-05-16T18:26:15Z/ Found at https://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/4325835f92f3f142ebd91a3fdba4e1f1ab7f1cfb
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-05-16T18:26:15Z/ Found at https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-35176
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250306-0001
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/05/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-35176
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-05-16T18:26:15Z/ Found at https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/05/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-35176
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.8724
EPSS Score 0.03575
Published At June 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-01T12:11:20.577359+00:00 GithubOSV Importer Import https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2024/05/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh.json 36.1.3