A flaw was found in REXML. A remote attacker could exploit inefficient regular expression (regex) parsing when processing hex numeric character references (&#x...;) in XML documents. This could lead to a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS), impacting the availability of the affected component. This issue is the result of an incomplete fix for CVE-2024-49761.
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Published : 2026-02-27 14:16
Updated : 2026-03-02 20:30
NVD link : CVE-2025-10990
Mitre link : CVE-2025-10990
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-10990
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CWE
CWE-1333
Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
