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ruby: REXML billion laughs attack via parameter entity expansion

Published Nov 3, 2014

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.

Affected products

Remediation

Red Hat statement

Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 5 is now in Maintenance Support phase receiving only qualified Important and Critical impact security fixes; and Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 4.3 is now in Extended Life Support phase receiving only Critical impact security fixes. This issue has been rated as having Moderate security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat JBoss Middleware Product Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/jboss_notes/

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-776

References (24)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Nov 3, 2014
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Oct 9, 2014
Link CVE-2014-8080
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2014-8080
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Oct 27, 2014
Links CVE-2014-8080 - Bugzilla