Cloudanix VulnDB

CVE-2025-10990

High · 7.5

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

0.5%

Published

Feb 27, 2026

CISA due date

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The record

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.

Affected packages

Ecosystem Package Introduced Fixed

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