Microsoft security update for CVE-2024-41946
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products9
- azl3 ruby 3.3.3-2 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl3 rubygem-rexml 3.2.8-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl3 rubygem-rexml 3.3.4-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
- cbl2 ruby 3.1.4-7 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cbl2 ruby 3.1.4-9 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cbl2 ruby 3.1.4-9 on CBL-Mariner 2.0
- cbl2 rubygem-rexml 3.2.7-2 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cbl2 rubygem-rexml 3.2.7-4 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cbl2 rubygem-rexml 3.2.7-4 on CBL-Mariner 2.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 4 updates
4 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 3.2.7-2 |
| — | Security Update | 3.1.4-7 |
| — | Security Update | 3.3.4-1 |
| — | Security Update | 3.3.3-2 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2024-41946
- EchelonGraph score
- 7.5 HIGH
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem 3.3.2 has a DoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many entity expansions with SAX2 or pull parser API. The REXML gem 3.3.3 or later include the patch to fix the vulnerability.
Published by GitHub, Inc., the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2024-41946, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).