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CVE-2013-1821

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Date: April 9, 2013

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.

Language: Ruby

Severity Score

5.3

Related Resources (27)

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1780-1

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00001.html

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0611.html

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=914716

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:124

Url: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/02/22/rexml-dos-2013-02-22/

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/52783

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00034.html

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/06/5

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/52902

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1028.html

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2809

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00015.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1821

Url: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2013-0092

Url: http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=39384

Url: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1147.html

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58141

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00036.html

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1821

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0612.html

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2013-1821

Url: http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2013&m=slackware-security.426862

Url: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702525

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2738

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2013-1821

Severity Score

5.3

Weakness Type (CWE)

Input Validation

CWE-20

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version 1.9.3-p392

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.3
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	LOW
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	NONE
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CVE-2013-1821

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Date: April 9, 2013

Language: Ruby

Severity Score

Related Resources (27)

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

CVSS v3.1

CVSS v2

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