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CVE-2008-3790

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2008-08-27 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The REXML module in Ruby 1.8.6 through 1.8.6-p287, 1.8.7 through 1.8.7-p72, and 1.9 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an XML document with recursively nested entities, aka an "XML entity explosion."

Affected Platforms

Ruby-Lang Ruby

Weakness Type

CWE-20

References