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CVE-2008-3790

Published: 8/27/2008 Last updated: 8/7/2024 Reserved: 8/26/2008

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."

CNA assigner: mitre (8254265b-2729-46b6-b9e3-3dfca2d5bfca) Requested by: n/a

Opam packages affected (1)

conf-ruby

Products affected (1)

Product Vendor Version
n/a n/a Versions 35.00 and prior

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