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CVE-2014-8080

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
03/11/2014
Last modified:
12/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:*:p550:*:*:*:*:*:* 1.9.3 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.3:p0:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.3:p125:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.3:p194:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.3:p286:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.3:p383:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.3:p385:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.3:p392:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.3:p426:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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