CVE-2025-58767

A denial of service flaw has been discovered in the rubygem REXML. Certain input can cause excess cpu usage and given sufficiently large input this can affect program performance.

Red Hat Product Security team has rated this vulnerability as having the 'Moderate' severity, with the final CVSSv3.1 score of 5.3 as the final impact in availability is restricted to the application consuming the REXML package and not the whole system.

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

The primary mitigation for this flaw is to avoid parsing XML documents originating from untrusted, unauthenticated, or unverified sources.