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Ruby Other Vulnerability - CVE-2014-8090 - Vulnerability Database
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Ruby Other Vulnerability - CVE-2014-8090

Medium
Reference: CVE-2014-8090
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8090
Title: Ruby Other Vulnerability
Overview:

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.