CVE-2014-8080

medium

Published 2014-11-03 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.0

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status
suse	12.3	affected
suse	13.1	affected
ubuntu	12.04	affected
ubuntu	14.04	affected
ubuntu	14.10	affected
rhel	6.0	affected
rhel	7.0	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
ruby-lang	ruby	`{"endIncluding":"1.9.3"}`
ruby-lang	ruby	`1.9.3`
ruby-lang	ruby	`2.0.0`
ruby-lang	ruby	`2.1.1`
ruby-lang	ruby	`2.1.2`
ruby-lang	ruby	`2.1.3`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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