CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2014-8090

Published: Nov 21, 2014 | Modified: Jan 03, 2017
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

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

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Ruby Ruby-lang 1.9.3 1.9.3
Ruby Ruby-lang 1.9.3 1.9.3
Ruby Ruby-lang 1.9.3 1.9.3
Ruby Ruby-lang 1.9.3 1.9.3
Ruby Ruby-lang 1.9.3 1.9.3
Ruby Ruby-lang 1.9.3 1.9.3
Ruby Ruby-lang 1.9.3 1.9.3
Ruby Ruby-lang 1.9.3 1.9.3
Ruby Ruby-lang 1.9.3 1.9.3
Ruby Ruby-lang 1.9.3 1.9.3
Ruby Ruby-lang 1.9.3 1.9.3
Ruby Ruby-lang 1.9.3 1.9.3
Ruby Ruby-lang 1.9.3 1.9.3
Ruby Ruby-lang * 1.9.3
Ruby Ruby-lang 2.0.0 2.0.0
Ruby Ruby-lang 2.0.0 2.0.0
Ruby Ruby-lang 2.0.0 2.0.0
Ruby Ruby-lang 2.0.0 2.0.0
Ruby Ruby-lang 2.0.0 2.0.0
Ruby Ruby-lang 2.0.0 2.0.0
Ruby Ruby-lang 2.0.0 2.0.0
Ruby Ruby-lang 2.0.0 2.0.0
Ruby Ruby-lang 2.1.1 2.1.1
Ruby Ruby-lang 2.1.2 2.1.2
Ruby Ruby-lang 2.1.3 2.1.3
Ruby Ruby-lang 2.1.4 2.1.4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat ruby-0:1.8.7.374-3.el6_6 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat ruby-0:2.0.0.353-22.el7_0 *
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat ruby193-ruby-0:1.9.3.484-50.el6 *
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat ruby200-ruby-0:2.0.0.353-24.el6 *
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 EUS RedHat ruby193-ruby-0:1.9.3.484-50.el6 *
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 EUS RedHat ruby200-ruby-0:2.0.0.353-24.el6 *
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 EUS RedHat ruby193-ruby-0:1.9.3.484-50.el6 *
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 EUS RedHat ruby200-ruby-0:2.0.0.353-24.el6 *
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUS RedHat ruby193-ruby-0:1.9.3.484-50.el6 *
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUS RedHat ruby200-ruby-0:2.0.0.353-24.el6 *
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat ruby193-ruby-0:1.9.3.484-50.el7 *
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat ruby200-ruby-0:2.0.0.353-24.el7 *
Ruby1.8 Ubuntu lucid *
Ruby1.8 Ubuntu precise *
Ruby1.9.1 Ubuntu lucid *
Ruby1.9.1 Ubuntu precise *
Ruby1.9.1 Ubuntu trusty *
Ruby1.9.1 Ubuntu utopic *
Ruby1.9.1 Ubuntu vivid *
Ruby2.0 Ubuntu trusty *
Ruby2.0 Ubuntu utopic *
Ruby2.1 Ubuntu devel *
Ruby2.1 Ubuntu utopic *
Ruby2.1 Ubuntu vivid *
Ruby2.1 Ubuntu wily *

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