Security Advisory

CVE-2008-3790

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-08-27 20:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 09:52:59
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

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."