CVE-2014-8090

The REXML parser in Ruby 1.9.x before 1.9.3 patchlevel 551, 2.0.x before 2.0.0 patchlevel 598, and 2.1.x before 2.1.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial…

published November 21, 2014

CVSS
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EPSS
6%
Percentile
92.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The REXML parser in Ruby 1.9.x before 1.9.3 patchlevel 551, 2.0.x before 2.0.0 patchlevel 598, and 2.1.x before 2.1.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) a crafted XML document containing an empty string in an entity that is used in a large number of nested entity references, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-1821 and CVE-2014-8080.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.05708 · 92.9th percentile
Published
2014-11-21T15:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 21 NOV 15:00Z
    The REXML parser in Ruby 1.9.x before 1.9.3 patchlevel 551, 2.0.x before 2.0.0 patchlevel 598, and 2.1.x before 2.1.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial…
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