CVE-2021-28965
ruby: XML round-trip vulnerability in REXML
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · April 5, 2021
Updated · June 28, 2026
Description
A flaw was found in the way the Ruby REXML library parsed XML documents. Parsing a specially crafted XML document using REXML and writing parsed data back to a new XML document results in creating a document with a different structure. This issue could affect the integrity of processed data in applications using REXML that parse XML documents, write data back to XML, and re-parse them again.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE-611 · Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference