CVE-2008-3790 (GCVE-0-2008-3790)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-08-27 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 09:52
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The REXML module in Ruby 1.8.6 through 1.8.6-p287, 1.8.7 through 1.8.7-p72, and 1.9 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an XML document with recursively nested entities, aka an "XML entity explosion."
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
35 references
Date Public
2008-08-23 00:00
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