CVE-2021-28965

Summary

CVECVE-2021-28965
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-04-21 07:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:32:00 UTC
DescriptionThe REXML gem before 3.2.5 in Ruby before 2.6.7, 2.7.x before 2.7.3, and 3.x before 3.0.1 does not properly address XML round-trip issues. An incorrect document can be produced after parsing and serializing.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All
Application Ruby-lang Rexml All All All All
Application Ruby-lang Ruby All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: rubygem-pry-0.13.1-5.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE-2021-28965: XML round-trip vulnerability in REXML MISC www.ruby-lang.org
CVE-2021-28965 Ruby Vulnerability in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: rubygem-pry-0.13.1-5.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159290 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for ruby:2.5 (ELSA-2021-2587)
  • 159297 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for ruby:2.7 (ELSA-2021-2584)
  • 159298 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for ruby:2.6 (ELSA-2021-2588)
  • 174934 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for ruby2.5 (SUSE-SU-2021:1280-1)
  • 179051 Debian Security Update for ruby2.5 (DSA 5066-1)
  • 180287 Debian Security Update for ruby2.7 (CVE-2021-28965)
  • 198337 Ubuntu Security Notification for Ruby vulnerability (USN-4922-1)
  • 198344 Ubuntu Security Notification for Ruby vulnerability (USN-4922-2)
  • 239350 Red Hat Update for rh-ruby25-ruby (RHSA-2021:2104)
  • 239368 Red Hat Update for rh-ruby26-ruby (RHSA-2021:2230)
  • 239369 Red Hat Update for rh-ruby27-ruby (RHSA-2021:2229)
  • 239461 Red Hat Update for ruby:2.6 (RHSA-2021:2588)
  • 239462 Red Hat Update for ruby:2.5 (RHSA-2021:2587)
  • 239463 Red Hat Update for ruby:2.7 (RHSA-2021:2584)
  • 240156 Red Hat Update for ruby:2.6 (RHSA-2022:0582)
  • 281338 Fedora Security Update for ruby (FEDORA-2021-0ea39d8eb3)
  • 281339 Fedora Security Update for ruby (FEDORA-2021-6385a09efc)
  • 281370 Fedora Security Update for ruby (FEDORA-2021-7b8b65bc7a)
  • 296053 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 35.94.4 Missing (CPUJUL2021)
  • 352306 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for ruby24: ALAS-2021-1501
  • 356195 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for ruby : ALASRUBY2.6-2023-006
  • 356240 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for ruby : ALASRUBY3.0-2023-007
  • 375475 GitLab Multiple Security Vulnerabilities(gitlab- 13-10-3)
  • 377357 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for ruby:2.7 (ALINUX3-SA-2021:0044)
  • 500615 Alpine Linux Security Update for ruby
  • 504375 Alpine Linux Security Update for ruby
  • 670412 EulerOS Security Update for ruby (EulerOS-SA-2021-1987)
  • 670497 EulerOS Security Update for ruby (EulerOS-SA-2021-2255)
  • 670523 EulerOS Security Update for ruby (EulerOS-SA-2021-2281)
  • 690169 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for gitlab (fb6e53ae-9df6-11eb-ba8c-001b217b3468)
  • 690188 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for ruby (dec7e4b6-961a-11eb-9c34-080027f515ea)
  • 750248 OpenSUSE Security Update for ruby2.5 (openSUSE-SU-2021:0607-1)
  • 900164 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for ruby 2.6.6
  • 901497 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for ruby (6860-1)
  • 903221 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for ruby (4162)
  • 940029 AlmaLinux Security Update for ruby:2.7 (ALSA-2021:2584)
  • 940189 AlmaLinux Security Update for ruby:2.6 (ALSA-2021:2588)
  • 940401 AlmaLinux Security Update for ruby:2.5 (ALSA-2021:2587)
  • 960022 Rocky Linux Security Update for ruby:2.6 (RLSA-2021:2588)
  • 960064 Rocky Linux Security Update for ruby:2.5 (RLSA-2021:2587)
  • 960085 Rocky Linux Security Update for ruby:2.7 (RLSA-2021:2584)
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