Description

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.

Remediation

References

CVE-2013-1821

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Severity

Medium

Classification

CVE-2013-1821 CWE-20

Tags

Missing Update Known Vulnerabilities