How severe is CVE-2024-49761?

This vulnerability has a severity rating of MEDIUM with a CVSS score of 7.5 out of 10.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2024-49761?

This is classified as CWE-1333, which is a common weakness in software security.

CVE-2024-49761 - MEDIUM Severity | CVSS 7.5

Vulnerability Description

REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.9 has a ReDoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many digits between &# and x...; in a hex numeric character reference (&#x...;). This does not happen with Ruby 3.2 or later. Ruby 3.1 is the only affected maintained Ruby. The REXML gem 3.3.9 or later include the patch to fix the vulnerability.

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