CVE-2014-8090

CVE Details

Release Date:

2014-11-13

Description

The REXML parser in Ruby 1.9.x before 1.9.3 patchlevel 551, 2.0.xbefore 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.

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CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	4.3	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None	Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 6 (ruby)	ELSA-2014-1911	2014-11-26
Oracle Linux version 6 (ruby193-ruby)	ELSA-2014-1913	2016-02-04
Oracle Linux version 7 (ruby)	ELSA-2014-1912	2014-11-26

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