CVE-2014-8090

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.

References

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/11/13/rexml-dos-cve-2014-8090/

https://support.apple.com/HT205267

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2014-7937

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2412-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71230

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:129

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3159

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3157

http://secunia.com/advisories/62748

http://secunia.com/advisories/62050

http://secunia.com/advisories/59948

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1914.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1913.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1912.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1911.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00004.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00000.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-12/msg00035.html

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0472.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

EPSS