UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8090

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8090

    Published: 14 Nov 2014Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-8090
    Aliases:
    USN-2412-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8090, https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/11/13/rexml-dos-cve-2014-8090/, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2412-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8090

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: ruby1.9.1

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.9.3.484-2ubuntu1.2

    Affected versions

    1.9.3.194-8.1ubuntu2
    1.9.3.448-1ubuntu1
    1.9.3.448-1ubuntu2
    1.9.3.484-1ubuntu1
    1.9.3.484-1ubuntu2
    1.9.3.484-2ubuntu1
    1.9.3.484-2ubuntu1.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High