CVE-2014-8090 Affecting rubygem19-rake package, versions <0:0.9.2.2-32.64.amzn1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
11.99% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-RUBYGEM19RAKE-1678960
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed21 Nov 2014

Introduced: 21 Nov 2014

CVE-2014-8090  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 rubygem19-rake to version 0:0.9.2.2-32.64.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2014-447.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rubygem19-rake package and not the rubygem19-rake 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 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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1