CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-8080

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2014-11-03 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2014-11-03
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

Affected configurations

• opensuse opensuse 12.3 • opensuse opensuse 13.1 • canonical ubuntu linux 12.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 14.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 14.10 • ruby-lang ruby (<= 1.9.3) • ruby-lang ruby 1.9.3 • ruby-lang ruby 2.0.0 • ruby-lang ruby 2.1.1 • ruby-lang ruby 2.1.2 • ruby-lang ruby 2.1.3 • redhat enterprise linux 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux 7.0

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