Vulnerability Report

CVE-2024-35176

Title: Ruby-Lang Rexml Denial of Service (DoS)

Denial of Service (DoS)

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2024-35176.

CWE Category CWE-400

Published Date May 16, 2024

Modified Date Nov 03, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.3 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

8.43%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2024-35176: 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.

Impacted Vendors

ruby-lang 1

Reference Links

https://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/4325835f92f3f142ebd91a3fdba4e1f1ab7f1cfb https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/05/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-35176 https://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/4325835f92f3f142ebd91a3fdba4e1f1ab7f1cfb https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00011.html https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250306-0001/ https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/05/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-35176

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2024-35176 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

November 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 16, 2024 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.