CVE-2014-8090 (GCVE-0-2014-8090)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-11-21 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:10
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
20 references
Date Public
2014-11-20 00:00
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"url": "http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2412-1"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "https://support.apple.com/HT205267"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"tags": [
"Exploit",
"Vendor Advisory"
],
"url": "https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/11/13/rexml-dos-cve-2014-8090/"
}
],
"sourceIdentifier": "secalert@redhat.com",
"vulnStatus": "Modified",
"weaknesses": [
{
"description": [
{
"lang": "en",
"value": "NVD-CWE-Other"
}
],
"source": "nvd@nist.gov",
"type": "Primary"
}
]
}
},
"redhat_vex": {
"aggregate_severity": "Moderate",
"current_release_date": "2026-06-28T11:27:59+00:00",
"cve": "CVE-2014-8090",
"id": "CVE-2014-8090",
"initial_release_date": "2014-11-13T00:00:00+00:00",
"product_status:fixed": "459",
"product_status:known_affected": "8",
"product_status:known_not_affected": "2",
"source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
"status": "final",
"title": "ruby: REXML incomplete fix for CVE-2014-8080",
"url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2014/cve-2014-8090.json",
"version": "3"
},
"suse_vex": {
"aggregate_severity": "moderate",
"current_release_date": "2026-08-04T00:10:44Z",
"cve": "CVE-2014-8090",
"id": "CVE-2014-8090",
"initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T05:26:11Z",
"product_status:known_affected": "8",
"product_status:recommended": "159",
"source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
"status": "interim",
"title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2014-8090",
"url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2014-8090.json",
"version": "10"
}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date | Other |
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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