The (1) jdom.rb and (2) rexml.rb components in Active Support in Ruby on Rails before 4.1.11 and 4.2.x before 4.2.2, when JDOM or REXML is…

Description

The (1) jdom.rb and (2) rexml.rb components in Active Support in Ruby on Rails before 4.1.11 and 4.2.x before 4.2.2, when JDOM or REXML is enabled, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (SystemStackError) via a large XML document depth.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

4.3% · top 8.9% of all CVEs (4 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

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

• RubyGemsactivesupportGHSA-j96r-xvjq-r9pg (opens in a new tab)

References (6)

• 1033755 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 75234 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• [rubyonrails-security] 20150616 [CVE-2015-3227] Possible Denial of Service attack in Active Support (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2015:1279 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• DSA-3464 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20150616 [CVE-2015-3227] Possible Denial of Service attack in Active Support (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_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-j96r-xvjq-r9pg (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2015-3227](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2015-3227.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2015-3227)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 05:39 UTC.