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Moderate severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 1, 2024· Updated Nov 3, 2025

REXML DoS vulnerability

CVE-2024-41946

Description

REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem 3.3.2 has a DoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many entity expansions with SAX2 or pull parser API. The REXML gem 3.3.3 or later include the patch to fix the vulnerability.

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Affected packages

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PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
rexmlRubyGems
< 3.3.33.3.3

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