Vulnerability in Ruby-Lang Ruby
CVE-2014-8080
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.
EPSS: 0.055 (92.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Ruby-lang Ruby — versions 1.9.3, 2.0.0, 2.1.1
- Canonical Ubuntu_linux — versions 12.04, 14.04, 14.10
- Opensuse — versions 12.3, 13.1
- Redhat Enterprise_linux — versions 6.0, 7.0
- N/a — versions n/a
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_APPLE)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Exploit, Vendor Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2014-8080?
- CVE-2014-8080 is a vulnerability in Ruby-Lang Ruby. Published 2014-11-03.
- Is CVE-2014-8080 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.