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
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 (including)
Ruby Ruby-lang 1.9.3 (including) 1.9.3 (including)
Ruby Ruby-lang 1.9.3-p0 (including) 1.9.3-p0 (including)
Ruby Ruby-lang 1.9.3-p125 (including) 1.9.3-p125 (including)
Ruby Ruby-lang 1.9.3-p194 (including) 1.9.3-p194 (including)
Ruby Ruby-lang 1.9.3-p286 (including) 1.9.3-p286 (including)
Ruby Ruby-lang 1.9.3-p383 (including) 1.9.3-p383 (including)
Ruby Ruby-lang 1.9.3-p385 (including) 1.9.3-p385 (including)
Ruby Ruby-lang 1.9.3-p392 (including) 1.9.3-p392 (including)
Ruby Ruby-lang 1.9.3-p426 (including) 1.9.3-p426 (including)
Ruby Ruby-lang 1.9.3-p429 (including) 1.9.3-p429 (including)
Ruby Ruby-lang 1.9.3-p448 (including) 1.9.3-p448 (including)
Ruby Ruby-lang 1.9.3-p545 (including) 1.9.3-p545 (including)
Ruby Ruby-lang 1.9.3-p547 (including) 1.9.3-p547 (including)
Ruby Ruby-lang 2.0.0 (including) 2.0.0 (including)
Ruby Ruby-lang 2.0.0-p0 (including) 2.0.0-p0 (including)
Ruby Ruby-lang 2.0.0-p195 (including) 2.0.0-p195 (including)
Ruby Ruby-lang 2.0.0-p247 (including) 2.0.0-p247 (including)
Ruby Ruby-lang 2.0.0-p451 (including) 2.0.0-p451 (including)
Ruby Ruby-lang 2.0.0-p481 (including) 2.0.0-p481 (including)
Ruby Ruby-lang 2.0.0-p576 (including) 2.0.0-p576 (including)
Ruby Ruby-lang 2.0.0-p594 (including) 2.0.0-p594 (including)
Ruby Ruby-lang 2.1.1 (including) 2.1.1 (including)
Ruby Ruby-lang 2.1.2 (including) 2.1.2 (including)
Ruby Ruby-lang 2.1.3 (including) 2.1.3 (including)
Ruby Ruby-lang 2.1.4 (including) 2.1.4 (including)

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