CVE-2024-41946: Ruby-Lang Rexml

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Ruby-Lang Rexml: before 3.3.3 (fixed in 3.3.3)

Published 2024-08-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.