Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-8090

Title: Ruby-Lang Ruby Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-8090.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Nov 21, 2014
Modified Date May 06, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
11.90%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-8090: 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.

Impacted Vendors

Y
yukihiro_matsumoto 1
R
ruby-lang 1

Reference Links

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0472.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 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1911.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1912.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1913.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1914.html http://secunia.com/advisories/59948 http://secunia.com/advisories/62050 http://secunia.com/advisories/62748 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3157 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3159 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:129 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71230 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2412-1 https://support.apple.com/HT205267 https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/11/13/rexml-dos-cve-2014-8090/ http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0472.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 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1911.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1912.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1913.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1914.html http://secunia.com/advisories/59948 http://secunia.com/advisories/62050 http://secunia.com/advisories/62748 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3157 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3159 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:129 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71230 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2412-1 https://support.apple.com/HT205267 https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/11/13/rexml-dos-cve-2014-8090/
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-8090 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.