Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion') The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ruby193-ruby (opens in a new tab)

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Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-RUBY193RUBY-9846228
published28 Apr 2025
disclosed27 Oct 2014

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Introduced: 27 Oct 2014

CVE-2014-8080 (opens in a new tab) CWE-776 (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby193-ruby package and not the ruby193-ruby package as distributed by RHEL.

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.