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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2024-41123

High
7.5/10

Summary

REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem prior to 3.3.3 has some DoS vulnerabilities when it parses an XML that has many specific characters such as whitespace character, `>]`, and `]>`.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published