Detections
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CVE-2025-10990
high
Description
A flaw was found in REXML. A remote attacker could exploit inefficient regular expression (regex) parsing when processing hex numeric character references (&#x...;) in XML documents. This could lead to a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS), impacting the availability of the affected component. This issue is the result of an incomplete fix for CVE-2024-49761.
References
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/10/28/redos-rexml-cve-2024-49761/
https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-2rxp-v6pw-ch6m
https://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/ce59f2eb1aeb371fe1643414f06618dbe031979f
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2025-208140