cvelist/2024/41xxx/CVE-2024-41946.json

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                "value": "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."
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                "url": "https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-5866-49gr-22v4",
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