CVE-2013-1821

ruby: entity expansion DoS vulnerability in REXML

Published Apr 9, 2013 CVSS 2.0 · 5.0 Medium EPSS 6.9% KEV · Not listed
Description
lib/rexml/text.rb in the REXML parser in Ruby before 1.9.3-p392 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via crafted text nodes in an XML document, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2738-1 ruby1.9.1 security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2809-1 ruby1.8 security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-4143 lib/rexml/text.rb in the REXML parser in Ruby before 1.9.3-p392 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via crafted text nodes in an XML document, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-hgg7-cghq-xhf4 Ruby vulnerable to denial of service
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1780-1 Ruby vulnerability
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.08516}

epss

{'score': 0.0671}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Aug 6, 2024, 3:13 PM
Reserved
Feb 19, 2013, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Apr 9, 2013, 9:55 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 11:52 PM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Feb 22, 2013, 12:00 AM