lib/rexml/text.rb in the REXML parser in Ruby before 1.9.3-p392 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption…

Description

lib/rexml/text.rb in the REXML parser in Ruby before 1.9.3-p392 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via crafted text nodes in an XML document, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

6.9% · top 5.9% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-20 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

• Mavenorg.jruby:jrubyGHSA-hgg7-cghq-xhf4 (opens in a new tab)

References (23)

• RHSA-2013:0612 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• MDVSA-2013:124 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2013:0603 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• SSA:2013-075-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SLACKWAREx_transferred
• 52783 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• DSA-2738 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2013:0614 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=39384 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702525 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2013-0092 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• USN-1780-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• 58141 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 52902 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20130306 CVE for Ruby Entity expansion DoS vulnerability in REXML (XML bomb) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=914716 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/02/22/rexml-dos-2013-02-22/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2013:0609 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• DSA-2809 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• RHSA-2013:1028 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2013:0611 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2013:1147 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2013:0647 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisory GHSA-hgg7-cghq-xhf4 (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 15:13 UTC.