Improper Input Validation Affecting ruby package, versions [,1.9.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
10.43% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-RUBY-2370209
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Apr 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Apr 2013

CVE-2013-1821  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ruby to version 1.9.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation lib/rexml/text.rb in the REXML parser in Ruby before 1.9.3-p392 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via crafted text nodes in an XML document, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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