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CVE-2014-8090

Published: Nov 21, 2014 | Modified: Apr 12, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
4.3 MODERATE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8090
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

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.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
RubyRuby-lang*1.9.3 (including)
RubyRuby-lang1.9.3 (including)1.9.3 (including)
RubyRuby-lang1.9.3-p0 (including)1.9.3-p0 (including)
RubyRuby-lang1.9.3-p125 (including)1.9.3-p125 (including)
RubyRuby-lang1.9.3-p194 (including)1.9.3-p194 (including)
RubyRuby-lang1.9.3-p286 (including)1.9.3-p286 (including)
RubyRuby-lang1.9.3-p383 (including)1.9.3-p383 (including)
RubyRuby-lang1.9.3-p385 (including)1.9.3-p385 (including)
RubyRuby-lang1.9.3-p392 (including)1.9.3-p392 (including)
RubyRuby-lang1.9.3-p426 (including)1.9.3-p426 (including)
RubyRuby-lang1.9.3-p429 (including)1.9.3-p429 (including)
RubyRuby-lang1.9.3-p448 (including)1.9.3-p448 (including)
RubyRuby-lang1.9.3-p545 (including)1.9.3-p545 (including)
RubyRuby-lang1.9.3-p547 (including)1.9.3-p547 (including)
RubyRuby-lang2.0.0 (including)2.0.0 (including)
RubyRuby-lang2.0.0-p0 (including)2.0.0-p0 (including)
RubyRuby-lang2.0.0-p195 (including)2.0.0-p195 (including)
RubyRuby-lang2.0.0-p247 (including)2.0.0-p247 (including)
RubyRuby-lang2.0.0-p451 (including)2.0.0-p451 (including)
RubyRuby-lang2.0.0-p481 (including)2.0.0-p481 (including)
RubyRuby-lang2.0.0-p576 (including)2.0.0-p576 (including)
RubyRuby-lang2.0.0-p594 (including)2.0.0-p594 (including)
RubyRuby-lang2.1.1 (including)2.1.1 (including)
RubyRuby-lang2.1.2 (including)2.1.2 (including)
RubyRuby-lang2.1.3 (including)2.1.3 (including)
RubyRuby-lang2.1.4 (including)2.1.4 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6RedHatruby-0:1.8.7.374-3.el6_6*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7RedHatruby-0:2.0.0.353-22.el7_0*
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6RedHatruby193-ruby-0:1.9.3.484-50.el6*
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6RedHatruby200-ruby-0:2.0.0.353-24.el6*
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 EUSRedHatruby193-ruby-0:1.9.3.484-50.el6*
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 EUSRedHatruby200-ruby-0:2.0.0.353-24.el6*
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 EUSRedHatruby193-ruby-0:1.9.3.484-50.el6*
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 EUSRedHatruby200-ruby-0:2.0.0.353-24.el6*
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUSRedHatruby193-ruby-0:1.9.3.484-50.el6*
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUSRedHatruby200-ruby-0:2.0.0.353-24.el6*
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7RedHatruby193-ruby-0:1.9.3.484-50.el7*
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7RedHatruby200-ruby-0:2.0.0.353-24.el7*
Ruby1.8Ubuntulucid*
Ruby1.8Ubuntuprecise*
Ruby1.9.1Ubuntulucid*
Ruby1.9.1Ubuntuprecise*
Ruby1.9.1Ubuntutrusty*
Ruby1.9.1Ubuntuutopic*
Ruby1.9.1Ubuntuvivid*
Ruby2.0Ubuntutrusty*
Ruby2.0Ubuntuutopic*
Ruby2.1Ubuntudevel*
Ruby2.1Ubuntuutopic*
Ruby2.1Ubuntuvivid*
Ruby2.1Ubuntuwily*

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