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SCA: security update for rexml (GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 419315

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2024-35176)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 419315

Version: Revision 1.12

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.2

Percentile: 51.14

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-35176

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/16/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/16/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-35176

cwe: CWE-400