cve/2024/CVE-2024-35176.md

### [CVE-2024-35176](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-35176)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Product&message=rexml&color=blue)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Version&message=%3D%20%3C%203.2.7%20&color=brighgreen)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Vulnerability&message=CWE-400%3A%20Uncontrolled%20Resource%20Consumption&color=brighgreen)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Vulnerability&message=CWE-770%3A%20Allocation%20of%20Resources%20Without%20Limits%20or%20Throttling&color=brighgreen)

### 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/SpiralBL0CK/CVE-2024-35176
- https://github.com/fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds
- https://github.com/lifeparticle/Ruby-Cheatsheet