CVE-2014-8090
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Nov 21, 2014
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 10, 2014
Description
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- openSUSE-SU-2014:1589vendor-advisory
- 59948third-party-advisory
- RHSA-2014:1912vendor-advisory
- DSA-3159vendor-advisory
- 62050third-party-advisory
- APPLE-SA-2015-09-30-3vendor-advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
- RHSA-2014:1913vendor-advisory
- https://support.apple.com/HT205267
- RHSA-2014:1911vendor-advisory
- DSA-3157vendor-advisory
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0472.html
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/11/13/rexml-dos-cve-2014-8090/
- USN-2412-1vendor-advisory
- 62748third-party-advisory
- MDVSA-2015:129vendor-advisory
- 71230vdb-entry
- openSUSE-SU-2015:0007vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2014:1914vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2015:0002vendor-advisory
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