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ruby: REXML incomplete fix for CVE-2014-8080

Published Nov 21, 2014

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.

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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/

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Weaknesses (1)

CWE-776

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner redhat
Published Nov 21, 2014
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Oct 10, 2014
Link CVE-2014-8090
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2014-8090
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Nov 13, 2014
Links CVE-2014-8090 - Bugzilla