PT-2014-8404 · Ruby+5 · Ruby+5

Willis Vandevanter · Published 2014-10-29 · Updated 2018-10-30 · CVE-2014-8080

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Ruby versions 1.9.x through 1.9.3-p549 Ruby versions 2.0.x through 2.0.0-p593 Ruby versions 2.1.x through 2.1.3

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically memory consumption, by exploiting the REXML parser in Ruby through a crafted XML document. This type of attack is known as an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

Recommendations For Ruby versions 1.9.x through 1.9.3-p549, update to version 1.9.3-p550 or later. For Ruby versions 2.0.x through 2.0.0-p593, update to version 2.0.0-p594 or later. For Ruby versions 2.1.x through 2.1.3, update to version 2.1.4 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-2061

CESA-2014_1911

CESA-2014_1912

CVE-2014-8080

DLA-200-1

DLA-88-1

DSA-3157-1

DSA-3159-1

ELSA-2014-1911

ELSA-2014-1912

ELSA-2014-1913

MGASA-2014-0443

RHSA-2014:1911

RHSA-2014:1912

RHSA-2014:1913

RHSA-2014:1914

RHSA-2014_1911

RHSA-2014_1912

RHSA-2026:7305

RHSA-2026:7307

RHSA-2026:8838

SUSE-SU-2015_0093-1

SUSE-SU-2015_0157-1

USN-2397-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Red Hat

Ruby

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 37

• 🔥 https://ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/10/27/rexml-dos-cve-2014-8080 · Exploit
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1911.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1913.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8080 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3157 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0443.html · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8080 · Security Note
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1912.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3159-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:129 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-12/msg00035.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3159 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1913.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-4975 · Vendor Advisory