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ALSA-2025:4063 Not scored

Moderate: ruby:3.1 security update

Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to perform system management tasks. Security Fix(es): * rexml: DoS vulnerability in REXML (CVE-2024-39908) * rexml: rubygem-rexml: DoS when parsing an XML having many specific characters such as whitespace character, >] and ]> (CVE-2024-41123) * rexml: DoS vulnerability in REXML (CVE-2024-41946) * rexml: DoS vulnerability in REXML (CVE-2024-43398) * CGI: ReDoS in CGI::Util#escapeElement (CVE-2025-27220) * CGI: Denial of Service in CGI::Cookie.parse (CVE-2025-27219) * uri: userinfo leakage in URI#join, URI#merge and URI#+ (CVE-2025-27221) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Exploit probability Not scored
Published April 22, 2025
Required by Not available
Last source change April 17, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

AlmaLinux:8 ruby
AlmaLinux:8 ruby-bundled-gems
AlmaLinux:8 ruby-default-gems
AlmaLinux:8 ruby-devel
AlmaLinux:8 ruby-doc
AlmaLinux:8 ruby-libs
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-abrt
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-abrt-doc
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-bigdecimal
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-bundler
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-io-console
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-irb
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-json
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-minitest
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-mysql2
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-mysql2-doc
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-pg
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-pg-doc
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-power_assert
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-psych
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-rake
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-rbs
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-rdoc
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-rexml
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-rss
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-test-unit
AlmaLinux:8 rubygem-typeprof
AlmaLinux:8 rubygems
AlmaLinux:8 rubygems-devel

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities ALSA-2025:4063

Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to perform system management tasks. Security Fix(es): * rexml: DoS vulnerability in REXML (CVE-2024-39908) * rexml: rubygem-rexml: DoS when parsing an XML having many specific characters such as whitespace character, >] and ]> (CVE-2024-41123) * rexml: DoS vulnerability in REXML (CVE-2024-41946) * rexml: DoS vulnerability in REXML (CVE-2024-43398) * CGI: ReDoS in CGI::Util#escapeElement (CVE-2025-27220) * CGI: Denial of Service in CGI::Cookie.parse (CVE-2025-27219) * uri: userinfo leakage in URI#join, URI#merge and URI#+ (CVE-2025-27221) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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05 / REFERENCES

Further evidence