{"answers":{"affected":"2 open source packages ship an affected version, including rexml. It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-41946 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade rexml to 3.3.3 or later.","what":"CVE-2024-41946 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in ruby rexml, published on 1 Aug 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2024-41946 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-41946 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in ruby rexml, published on 1 Aug 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-41946 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- rexml (RubyGems): affected all versions; fixed in 3.3.3\n- rexml (RubyGems): affected all versions; fixed in 3.3.3\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-41946/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-41946/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-41946","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-41946/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-41946","record":{"aliases":["ALPINE-CVE-2024-41946","AZL-47331","AZL-47358","AZL-47370","AZL-47376","DEBIAN-CVE-2024-41946","ECHO-3a4a-5767-3e7d","GHSA-5866-49gr-22v4","MINI-6456-2g6w-5fmf","OESA-2024-2038","ROOT-OS-ALPINE-318-CVE-2024-41946","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41946"],"analysis":{"component_type":"library","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Ruby XML library","requires_auth":"none","summary":"An attacker can cause a denial of service in applications using the REXML Ruby library by providing XML with many entity expansions.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"GitHub_M","cpe":[{"product":"rexml","vendor":"ruby-lang"}],"cvss":{"score":5.3,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-400","name":"Uncontrolled Resource Consumption"}],"description":"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.","ecosystems":["RubyGems"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"REXML DoS vulnerability","id":"CVE-2024-41946","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":"RubyGems","product":null,"products":[],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2024"},"n_packages":2,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"XWiki Platform XSS through conflict resolution","id":"CVE-2024-41947"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"RubyGems","fixed":["3.3.3"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"rexml","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-5866-49gr-22v4"},{"ecosystem":"RubyGems","fixed":["3.3.3"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"rexml","purl":"pkg:gem/rexml","source":"GHSA-5866-49gr-22v4"}],"prev":{"headline":"The fuels-ts typescript SDK has no awareness of to-be-spent transactions","id":"CVE-2024-41945"},"products":["rexml"],"published":"2024-08-01","related":[{"cvss_score":5.3,"headline":"REXML DoS vulnerability","id":"CVE-2024-41123","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-08-01"},{"cvss_score":5.3,"headline":"REXML contains a denial of service vulnerability","id":"CVE-2024-35176","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-05-16"},{"cvss_score":1.2,"headline":"REXML has a DoS condition when parsing malformed XML file","id":"CVE-2025-58767","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-09-17"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"GitHub Advisory Database","prefix":"GHSA"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"yes","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2025-11-03","vendors":["ruby"]},"summary":"An attacker can cause a denial of service in applications using the REXML Ruby library by providing XML with many entity expansions.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-41946/"}