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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2013-1821

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.

MEDIUM 5.0EPSS 6.73%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (6.73%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

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.

CVSS 2.0
5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
6.73% probability · 94th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-20
Affected
ruby-lang/ruby
Source
secalert@redhat.com

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.