Vulnerability Details : CVE-2014-8090

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.
Published 2014-11-21 15:59:04
Updated 2017-01-03 02:59:17
Source Red Hat, Inc.
View at NVD,   CVE.org
Vulnerability category: Denial of service

Products affected by CVE-2014-8090

Threat overview for CVE-2014-8090

Top countries where our scanners detected CVE-2014-8090
Top open port discovered on systems with this issue 80
IPs affected by CVE-2014-8090 2,698
Threat actors abusing to this issue? Yes
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2014-8090

EPSS FAQ
11.99%
Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days EPSS Score History
~ 95 %
Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less

CVSS scores for CVE-2014-8090

Base Score Base Severity CVSS Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Score Source First Seen
5.0
 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
10.0
2.9
 NIST

References for CVE-2014-8090

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