CVE-2024-49761: Netapp Ontap Tools
High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Affected products
Published 2024-10-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.