vulnerability
Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2024-49761: ruby security update
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Oct 28, 2024 | Feb 11, 2025 | Apr 1, 2026 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 28, 2024
Added
Feb 11, 2025
Modified
Apr 1, 2026
Description
REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.9 has a ReDoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many digits between &# and x...; in a hex numeric character reference (&#x...;). This does not happen with Ruby 3.2 or later. Ruby 3.1 is the only affected maintained Ruby. The REXML gem 3.3.9 or later include the patch to fix the vulnerability.
Solutions
huawei-euleros-2_0_sp11-upgrade-rubyhuawei-euleros-2_0_sp11-upgrade-ruby-helphuawei-euleros-2_0_sp11-upgrade-ruby-irb
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