Description (CNA)
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.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| Not supplied / Not supplied | unaffected 6.17.5; unaffected 6.16.5.4 |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8 | unaffected 0:8.8.1-3.el8sat before * |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8 | unaffected 0:8.8.1-3.el8sat before * |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 9 | unaffected 0:8.8.1-3.el9sat before * |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 9 | unaffected 0:8.8.1-3.el9sat before * |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9 | unaffected 0:8.8.1-3.el9sat before * |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9 | unaffected 0:8.8.1-3.el9sat before * |
| Red Hat / Satellite Client 6 for RHEL 8 | unaffected 0:7.34.0-4.el8sat before * |
| Red Hat / Satellite Client 6 for RHEL 9 | unaffected 0:7.34.0-4.el9sat before * |
CWE
CWE-1333
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17606
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17613
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17693
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-10990
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2398216
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/ce59f2eb1aeb371fe1643414f06618dbe031979f
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-2rxp-v6pw-ch6m
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/10/28/redos-rexml-cve-2024-49761/
ADP enrichment
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