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CVE-2025-10990

HIGH

7.5

Description

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score7.5

SeverityHIGH

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published2/27/2026

Last Modified3/2/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-1333

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17606(secalert@redhat.com)

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17613(secalert@redhat.com)

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17693(secalert@redhat.com)

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-10990(secalert@redhat.com)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2398216(secalert@redhat.com)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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