CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-3790

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2008-08-27 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-08-27
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

The REXML module in Ruby 1.8.6 through 1.8.6-p287, 1.8.7 through 1.8.7-p72, and 1.9 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an XML document with recursively nested entities, aka an "XML entity explosion."

Affected configurations

• ruby-lang ruby 1.8.6 • ruby-lang ruby 1.8.7 • ruby-lang ruby 1.9

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References