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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2738-1 ruby1.9.1 security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2809-1 ruby1.8 security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-4143 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-hgg7-cghq-xhf4 Ruby vulnerable to denial of service
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1780-1 Ruby vulnerability
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History

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.08516}

epss

{'score': 0.0671}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T15:13:33.271Z

Reserved: 2013-02-19T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2013-1821

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2013-04-09T21:55:01.113

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2013-1821

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2013-02-22T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2013-1821 - Bugzilla

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