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.
Problem types
Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Product status
6.17.5
6.16.5.4
0:8.8.1-3.el8sat (rpm) before *
0:8.8.1-3.el8sat (rpm) before *
0:8.8.1-3.el9sat (rpm) before *
0:8.8.1-3.el9sat (rpm) before *
0:8.8.1-3.el9sat (rpm) before *
0:8.8.1-3.el9sat (rpm) before *
0:7.34.0-4.el8sat (rpm) before *
0:7.34.0-4.el9sat (rpm) before *
Timeline
| 2025-09-25: | Reported to Red Hat. |
| 2025-09-25: | Made public. |
References
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17606 (RHSA-2025:17606)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17613 (RHSA-2025:17613)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17693 (RHSA-2025:17693)
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-10990
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2398216 (RHBZ#2398216)