CVE catalog
CVE-2014-8090
ruby1.8, ruby1.9.1, ruby2.0, ruby2.1 vulnerability
- Severity
- Unknown
- Published
- Updated
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 5.71% · Oct 27, 2026
The REXML parser in Ruby 1.9.x before 1.9.3 patchlevel 551, 2.0.x before 2.0.0 patchlevel 598, and 2.1.x before 2.1.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) a crafted XML document containing an empty string in an entity that is used in a large number of nested entity references, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-1821 and CVE-2014-8080.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu | ruby1.9.1 | 14.04 | 1.9.3.194-8.1ubuntu2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | ruby1.9.1 | 14.04 | 1.9.3.448-1ubuntu1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | ruby1.9.1 | 14.04 | 1.9.3.448-1ubuntu2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | ruby1.9.1 | 14.04 | 1.9.3.484-1ubuntu1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | ruby1.9.1 | 14.04 | 1.9.3.484-1ubuntu2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | ruby1.9.1 | 14.04 | 1.9.3.484-2ubuntu1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | ruby1.9.1 | 14.04 | 1.9.3.484-2ubuntu1.1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | ruby1.9.1 | 14.04 | 1.9.3.484-2ubuntu1.2 | fixed |
| Ubuntu | ruby2.0 | 14.04 | 2.0.0.299-2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | ruby2.0 | 14.04 | 2.0.0.343-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | ruby2.0 | 14.04 | 2.0.0.343-1ubuntu1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | ruby2.0 | 14.04 | 2.0.0.353-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | ruby2.0 | 14.04 | 2.0.0.353-1ubuntu1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | ruby2.0 | 14.04 | 2.0.0.484-1ubuntu1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | ruby2.0 | 14.04 | 2.0.0.484-1ubuntu2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | ruby2.0 | 14.04 | 2.0.0.484-1ubuntu2.1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | ruby2.0 | 14.04 | 2.0.0.484-1ubuntu2.2 | fixed |
| Ubuntu | ruby1.9.1 | 14.04 | 1.9.3.194-8.1ubuntu2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | ruby1.9.1 | 14.04 | 1.9.3.448-1ubuntu1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | ruby1.9.1 | 14.04 | 1.9.3.448-1ubuntu2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | ruby1.9.1 | 14.04 | 1.9.3.484-1ubuntu1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | ruby1.9.1 | 14.04 | 1.9.3.484-1ubuntu2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | ruby1.9.1 | 14.04 | 1.9.3.484-2ubuntu1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | ruby1.9.1 | 14.04 | 1.9.3.484-2ubuntu1.1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | ruby1.9.1 | 14.04 | 1.9.3.484-2ubuntu1.2 | fixed |
| Ubuntu | ruby2.0 | 14.04 | 2.0.0.299-2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | ruby2.0 | 14.04 | 2.0.0.343-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | ruby2.0 | 14.04 | 2.0.0.343-1ubuntu1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | ruby2.0 | 14.04 | 2.0.0.353-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | ruby2.0 | 14.04 | 2.0.0.353-1ubuntu1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | ruby2.0 | 14.04 | 2.0.0.484-1ubuntu1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | ruby2.0 | 14.04 | 2.0.0.484-1ubuntu2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | ruby2.0 | 14.04 | 2.0.0.484-1ubuntu2.1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | ruby2.0 | 14.04 | 2.0.0.484-1ubuntu2.2 | fixed |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu | ruby1.9.1 | deb | 14.04 | 1.9.3.484-2ubuntu1.2 | Not reported | UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8090 | Not reported |
| Ubuntu | ruby2.0 | deb | 14.04 | 2.0.0.484-1ubuntu2.2 | Not reported | UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8090 | Not reported |
| Ubuntu | ruby1.9.1 | deb | 14.04 | 1.9.3.484-2ubuntu1.2 | Not reported | USN-2412-1 | Not reported |
| Ubuntu | ruby2.0 | deb | 14.04 | 2.0.0.484-1ubuntu2.2 | Not reported | USN-2412-1 | Not reported |
OpenFactory catalog packages
No matching packages in this catalog.
Observed:
References
- [https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf/rhsa-2014_1912.json]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8090]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-2412-1]
- [https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2014/cve-2014-8090.json]
[FIRST EPSS] · [OSV Package Vulnerability Database] · [Red Hat security advisories and VEX] · [SUSE security advisories and VEX]