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ruby: entity expansion DoS vulnerability in REXML

Published Apr 9, 2013

Description

lib/rexml/text.rb in the REXML parser in Ruby before 1.9.3-p392 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via crafted text nodes in an XML document, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

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Remediation

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner redhat
Published Apr 9, 2013
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Feb 19, 2013
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Feb 22, 2013
GHSA-HGG7-CGHQ-XHF4