CVE-2014-8080 Affecting ruby21-irb package, versions <0:2.1.4-1.14.amzn1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
5.65% (93rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-RUBY21IRB-1678753
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed3 Nov 2014

Introduced: 3 Nov 2014

CVE-2014-8080  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 ruby21-irb to version 0:2.1.4-1.14.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2014-439.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby21-irb package and not the ruby21-irb package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2018.03 relevant fixed versions and status.

The REXML parser in Ruby 1.9.x before 1.9.3-p550, 2.0.x before 2.0.0-p594, and 2.1.x before 2.1.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted XML document, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1