CVE-2014-8090
The REXML parser in Ruby 1.9.x before 1.9.3 patchlevel 551, 2.0.x before 2.0.0 patchlevel 598, and 2.1.x before 2.1.5 allows remote…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 5.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 6.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The REXML parser in Ruby 1.9.x before 1.9.3 patchlevel 551, 2.0.x before 2.0.0 patchlevel 598, and 2.1.x before 2.1.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) a crafted XML document containing an empty string in an entity that is used in a large number of nested entity references, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-1821 and CVE-2014-8080.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 42 days later
· 42 days later
Published
- 10 years later
· 10 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.7% · top 6.9% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
20
- openSUSE-SU-2014:1589 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 59948 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- RHSA-2014:1912 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- DSA-3159 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 62050 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2015-09-30-3 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2014:1913 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/HT205267 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2014:1911 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- DSA-3157 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0472.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/11/13/rexml-dos-cve-2014-8090/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-2412-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 62748 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- MDVSA-2015:129 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- 71230 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:0007 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2014:1914 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:0002 (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)
- EUVD EUVD-2014-7937 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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