Fluid Attacks Database

Description

The REXML parser in Ruby 1.9.x before 1.9.3 patchlevel 551, 2.0.x before 2.0.0 patchlevel 598, and 2.1.x before 2.1.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) a crafted XML document containing an empty string in an entity that is used in a large number of nested entity references, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-1821 and CVE-2014-8080.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem	Component	Affected version	Patched versions
rpm rhel5	ruby	-	-
rpm rhel6	ruby	<0:1.8.7.374-3.el6_6	0:1.8.7.374-3.el6_6
rpm rhel7	ruby	<0:2.0.0.353-22.el7_0	0:2.0.0.353-22.el7_0

Aliases

1. CVE-2014-80902. NVD-2014-80903. OSV-2014-8090

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