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.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2014-8090 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is now in Production 3 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This has been rated as having Moderate security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/
Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 5 is now in Maintenance Support phase receiving only qualified Important and Critical impact security fixes; and Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 4.3 is now in Extended Life Support phase receiving only Critical impact security fixes. This issue has been rated as having Moderate security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat JBoss Middleware Product Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/jboss_notes/
| Base Score | 4.3 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Medium |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
Find out more about Red Hat support for the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (ruby200-ruby) | RHSA-2014:1914 | 2014-11-26 |
| Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (ruby193-ruby) | RHSA-2014:1913 | 2014-11-26 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (ruby) | RHSA-2014:1911 | 2014-11-26 |
| Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (ruby200-ruby) | RHSA-2014:1914 | 2014-11-26 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (ruby) | RHSA-2014:1912 | 2014-11-26 |
| Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (ruby193-ruby) | RHSA-2014:1913 | 2014-11-26 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1 | ruby193-ruby | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Satellite 6 | rubygem-rake | Will not fix |
| Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 1 | ruby193-ruby | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5 | jruby | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.3 | jruby | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 | ruby193-ruby | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | ruby | Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | ruby | Will not fix |
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