Description
The REXML parser in Ruby 1.9.x before 1.9.3-p550, 2.0.x before 2.0.0-p594, and 2.1.x before 2.1.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted XML document, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.
Published: 2014-11-03
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: 13.8% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-88-1 ruby1.8 security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-200-1 ruby1.9.1 security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3157-1 ruby1.9.1 security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3159-1 ruby1.8 security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2014-7929 The REXML parser in Ruby 1.9.x before 1.9.3-p550, 2.0.x before 2.0.0-p594, and 2.1.x before 2.1.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted XML document, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2397-1 Ruby vulnerabilities
History

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Subscriptions

Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Opensuse Opensuse
Redhat Enterprise Linux Rhel Software Collections
Ruby-lang Ruby
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T13:10:50.075Z

Reserved: 2014-10-09T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2014-8080

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2014-11-03T16:55:07.790

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2014-8080

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2014-10-27T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-8080 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses