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layout: news_post
title: "CVE-2024-41123: DoS vulnerabilities in REXML"
author: "kou"
translator:
date: 2024-08-01 03:00:00 +0000
tags: security
lang: en
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There are some DoS vulnerabilities in REXML gem. These vulnerabilities have been assigned the CVE identifier [CVE-2024-41123](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-41123). We strongly recommend upgrading the REXML gem.

## Details

When parsing an XML document that has many specific characters such as whitespace character, `>]` and `]>`, REXML gem may take long time.

Please update REXML gem to version 3.3.3 or later.

## Affected versions

* REXML gem 3.3.2 or prior

## Credits

Thanks to [mprogrammer](https://hackerone.com/mprogrammer) and [scyoon](https://hackerone.com/scyoon) for discovering these issues.

## History

* Originally published at 2024-08-01 03:00:00 (UTC)