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.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2014-11-21T15:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-06T13:10:50.067Z
Reserved: 2014-10-10T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2014-8090
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2014-11-21T15:59:04.243
Modified: 2024-11-21T02:18:31.870
Link: CVE-2014-8090
Redhat