CVEvulnerability

CVE-2013-1821

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2013-04-09 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-04-09
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

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.

Affected configurations

• ruby-lang ruby (<= 1.9.3) • ruby-lang ruby 1.9 • ruby-lang ruby 1.9.1 • ruby-lang ruby 1.9.2 • ruby-lang ruby 1.9.3 • ruby-lang ruby 2.0 • ruby-lang ruby 2.0.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References