### [CVE-2024-35176](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-35176)
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### Description

 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.

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#### Reference
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#### Github
- https://github.com/fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds
- https://github.com/lifeparticle/Ruby-Cheatsheet