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CVE-2014-8080

Public on 2014-11-03
Modified on 2014-11-05
Description

The REXML parser in Ruby 1.9.x before 1.9.3-p550, 2.0.x before 2.0.0-p594, and 2.1.x before 2.1.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted XML document, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
4.3
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 ruby20 2014-11-05 12:16 ALAS-2014-441
Amazon Linux 1 ruby21 2014-11-05 12:13 ALAS-2014-439

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P