🚨 [security] Update rexml 3.3.1 → 3.3.6 (patch)

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✳️ rexml (3.3.1 → 3.3.6) · Repo · Changelog

Security Advisories 🚨

🚨 REXML denial of service vulnerability

Impact

The REXML gem before 3.3.6 has a DoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many deep elements that have same local name attributes.

If you need to parse untrusted XMLs with tree parser API like REXML::Document.new, you may be impacted to this vulnerability. If you use other parser APIs such as stream parser API and SAX2 parser API, this vulnerability is not affected.

Patches

The REXML gem 3.3.6 or later include the patch to fix the vulnerability.

Workarounds

Don't parse untrusted XMLs with tree parser API.

🚨 REXML DoS vulnerability

Impact

The REXML gem before 3.3.2 has a DoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many entity expansions with SAX2 or pull parser API.

If you need to parse untrusted XMLs with SAX2 or pull parser API, you may be impacted to this vulnerability.

Patches

The REXML gem 3.3.3 or later include the patch to fix the vulnerability.

Workarounds

Don't parse untrusted XMLs with SAX2 or pull parser API.

References

• https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2008/08/23/dos-vulnerability-in-rexml/ : This is a similar vulnerability
• https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/08/01/dos-rexml-cve-2024-41946/: An announce on www.ruby-lang.org

🚨 REXML DoS vulnerability

Impact

The REXML gem before 3.3.2 has some DoS vulnerabilities when it parses an XML that has many specific characters such as whitespace character, >] and ]>.

If you need to parse untrusted XMLs, you may be impacted to these vulnerabilities.

Patches

The REXML gem 3.3.3 or later include the patches to fix these vulnerabilities.

Workarounds

Don't parse untrusted XMLs.

References

• GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh : This is a similar vulnerability
• GHSA-4xqq-m2hx-25v8 : This is a similar vulnerability
• https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/08/01/dos-rexml-cve-2024-41123/: An announce on www.ruby-lang.org

🚨 REXML denial of service vulnerability

Impact

The REXML gem before 3.3.1 has some DoS vulnerabilities when it parses an XML that has many specific characters such as <, 0 and %>.

If you need to parse untrusted XMLs, you may be impacted to these vulnerabilities.

Patches

The REXML gem 3.3.2 or later include the patches to fix these vulnerabilities.

Workarounds

Don't parse untrusted XMLs.

References

• GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh : This is a similar vulnerability
• https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/07/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-39908/

Release Notes

3.3.6

Improvements

• Removed duplicated entity expansions for performance.

  • GH-194
  • Patch by Viktor Ivarsson.

• Improved namespace conflicted attribute check performance. It was
  too slow for deep elements.

  • Reported by l33thaxor.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that default entity expansions are counted for
  security check. Default entity expansions should not be counted
  because they don't have a security risk.

  • GH-198
  • GH-199
  • Patch Viktor Ivarsson

• Fixed a parser bug that parameter entity references in internal
  subsets are expanded. It's not allowed in the XML specification.

  • GH-191
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

• Fixed a stream parser bug that user-defined entity references in
  text aren't expanded.

  • GH-200
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

Thanks

• Viktor Ivarsson

• NAITOH Jun

• l33thaxor

3.3.5

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that REXML::Security.entity_expansion_text_limit
  check has wrong text size calculation in SAX and pull parsers.
  • GH-193
  • GH-195
  • Reported by Viktor Ivarsson.
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

Thanks

• Viktor Ivarsson

• NAITOH Jun

3.3.4

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that REXML::Security isn't defined when
  REXML::Parsers::StreamParser is used and
  rexml/parsers/streamparser is only required.
  • GH-189
  • Patch by takuya kodama.

Thanks

• takuya kodama

3.3.3

Improvements

• Added support for detecting invalid XML that has unsupported
  content before root element

  • GH-184
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

• Added support for REXML::Security.entity_expansion_limit= and
  REXML::Security.entity_expansion_text_limit= in SAX2 and pull
  parsers

  • GH-187
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

• Added more tests for invalid XMLs.

  • GH-183
  • Patch by Watson.

• Added more performance tests.

  • Patch by Watson.

• Improved parse performance.

  • GH-186
  • Patch by tomoya ishida.

Thanks

• NAITOH Jun

• Watson

• tomoya ishida

3.3.2

Improvements

• Improved parse performance.

  • GH-160
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

• Improved parse performance.

  • GH-169
  • GH-170
  • GH-171
  • GH-172
  • GH-173
  • GH-174
  • GH-175
  • GH-176
  • GH-177
  • Patch by Watson.

• Added support for raising a parse exception when an XML has extra
  content after the root element.

  • GH-161
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

• Added support for raising a parse exception when an XML
  declaration exists in wrong position.

  • GH-162
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

• Removed needless a space after XML declaration in pretty print mode.

  • GH-164
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

• Stopped to emit :text event after the root element.

  • GH-167
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that SAX2 parser doesn't expand predefined entities for
  characters callback.
  • GH-168
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

Thanks

• NAITOH Jun

• Watson

Does any of this look wrong? Please let us know.

Commits

See the full diff on Github. The new version differs by 69 commits:

• Add 3.3.6 entry
• parser tree: improve namespace conflicted attribute check performance
• Fix a bug that Stream parser doesn't expand the user-defined entity references for "text" (#200)
• parser: keep the current namespaces instead of stack of Set
• parser: move duplicated end tag check to BaseParser
• test tree-parser: move common method to base class
• test: fix indent
• test: fix indent
• Use loop instead of recursive call for Element#namespace
• Use loop instead of recursive call for Element#root
• test: split duplicated attribute case and namespace conflict case
• Fix to not allow parameter entity references at internal subsets (#191)
• Fix RuntimeError in `REXML::Parsers::BaseParser` for valid feeds (#199)
• Improve `BaseParser#unnormalize` (#194)
• Bump version
• Add 3.3.5 entry
• Fix calculation of Security.entity_expansion_text_limit in SAX/pull parsers (#195)
• Bump version
• Add 3.3.4 entry
• Add missing rexml/security require in rexml/parsers/baseparser.rb (#189)
• Bump version
• Add 3.3.3 entry
• test: add a performance test for attribute list declaration
• test: fix wrong test name
• test: use double quote for string literal
• test: don't use abbreviated name
• test: add a performance test for PI with many tabs
• parse pi: improve invalid case detection
• test: fix a typo
• test: use double quote for string literal
• test: add performance tests for entity declaration
• test: use double quote for string literal
• test: add a performance test for %...; in document declaration
• test: use double quote for string literal
• test: fix location
• Fix source.match performance without specifying term string (#186)
• Add support for XML entity expansion limitation in SAX and pull parsers (#187)
• Add more invalid test cases for parsing entitly declaration (#183)
• Add support for detecting invalid XML that has unsupported content before root element (#184)
• Fix method scope in test in order to invoke the tests properly and fix exception message (#182)
• Add missing references in 3.3.2 entry
• Bump version
• Add 3.3.2 entry
• test: improve linear performance test names
• Fix performance issue caused by using repeated `>` characters inside `<xml><!-- --></xml>` (#177)
• Fix ReDoS by using repeated space characters inside `<!DOCTYPE name [<!ATTLIST>]>` (#176)
• Suppress have_root not initialized warnings on Ruby < 3
• Fix performance issue caused by using repeated `>` characters inside `<!DOCTYPE name [<!ENTITY>]>` (#175)
• Fix performance issue caused by using repeated `>` characters inside `<!DOCTYPE root [<!-- PAYLOAD -->]>` (#174)
• Fix performance issue caused by using repeated `>` characters after ` <!DOCTYPE name` (#173)
• Fix performance issue caused by using repeated `>` characters inside `CDATA [ PAYLOAD ]` (#172)
• Fix performance issue caused by using repeated `>` characters inside comments (#171)
• Fix ReDoS caused by very large character references using repeated 0s (#169)
• Fix performance issue caused by using repeated `>` characters inside `<?xml` (#170)
• Fix a bug that SAX2 parser doesn't expand the predefined entities for "characters" (#168)
• Do not output :text event after the root tag is closed (#167)
• test Text.check: add entity reference with new line case
• test Text.check: add a space at the start in character reference cases
• test Text.check: use "why" for test name
• test Text.check: add garbage at the end in character reference cases
• test Text.check: add empty reference case
• Fix test for Text.check (#166)
• Add tests for REXML::Text.check (#165)
• Stop adding extra new line after XML declaration with pretty format (#164)
• test: move an attribute value test to parse/test_element.rb
• Add position check for XML declaration (#162)
• fix: Extra content at the end of the document (#161)
• Optimize BaseParser#unnormalize method to replace "\r\n" with "\n" only when "\r\n" is included (#160)
• Bump version

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