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
- 5.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 92% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- opensuse:opensuse
- redhat:enterprise_linux
- ruby-lang:ruby
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0443.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-12/msg00035.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00004.html