Description
lib/rexml/text.rb in the REXML parser in Ruby before 1.9.3-p392 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via crafted text nodes in an XML document, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.
Published: 2013-04-09
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: 32.2% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2738-1 ruby1.9.1 security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2809-1 ruby1.8 security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-4143 lib/rexml/text.rb in the REXML parser in Ruby before 1.9.3-p392 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via crafted text nodes in an XML document, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-hgg7-cghq-xhf4 Ruby vulnerable to denial of service
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1780-1 Ruby vulnerability
History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.08516}

epss

{'score': 0.0671}


Subscriptions

Redhat Enterprise Linux Fuse Esb Enterprise Jboss Enterprise Soa Platform Jboss Fuse
Ruby-lang Ruby
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T15:13:33.271Z

Reserved: 2013-02-19T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2013-1821

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2013-04-09T21:55:01.113

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2013-1821

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2013-02-22T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2013-1821 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses