FKIE_CVE-2008-3790
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2008-08-27 20:41 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:56
Severity
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."
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ruby-lang | ruby | 1.8.6 | |
| ruby-lang | ruby | 1.8.6 | |
| ruby-lang | ruby | 1.8.6 | |
| ruby-lang | ruby | 1.8.6 | |
| ruby-lang | ruby | 1.8.6 | |
| ruby-lang | ruby | 1.8.6 | |
| ruby-lang | ruby | 1.8.6 | |
| ruby-lang | ruby | 1.8.6 | |
| ruby-lang | ruby | 1.8.6 | |
| ruby-lang | ruby | 1.8.6 | |
| ruby-lang | ruby | 1.8.6 | |
| ruby-lang | ruby | 1.8.7 | |
| ruby-lang | ruby | 1.8.7 | |
| ruby-lang | ruby | 1.8.7 | |
| ruby-lang | ruby | 1.8.7 | |
| ruby-lang | ruby | 1.8.7 | |
| ruby-lang | ruby | 1.8.7 | |
| ruby-lang | ruby | 1.8.7 | |
| ruby-lang | ruby | 1.8.7 | |
| ruby-lang | ruby | 1.8.7 | |
| ruby-lang | ruby | 1.9 |
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