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CVE-2014-8090
CVE information
Published
Last Modified
CVSSv2.0 Severity
Impact Analysis
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..
CVSSv2.0 Score
- Severity
- Medium
- Base Score
- 5/10
- Exploit Score
- 10/10
- Access Vector
- Network
- Access Complexity
- Low
- Authentication Required
- None
- Impact Score
- 2.9/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- None
- Availability Impact
- Partial
- Integrity Impact
- None
Products Affected
CPE | Affected | Vulnerable | Excluding | Edit |
---|---|---|---|---|
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.3:p426:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.3:p448:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.0.0:p481:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.3:p286:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.3:p385:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.3:p383:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.0.0:p195:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.3:p429:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.0.0:p594:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.0.0:p247:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.3:p547:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.0.0:p0:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.3:p125:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.3:p194:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.3:p545:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.0.0:p451:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.3:p392:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:*:p550:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.3:p0:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.0.0:p576:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - |
References
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2412-1
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/11/13/rexml-dos-cve-2014-8090/
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1911.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59948
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1913.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1912.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1914.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-12/msg00035.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62748
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3159
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3157
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00000.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:129
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0472.html
- https://support.apple.com/HT205267
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71230
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62050