CVE-2008-3790

CVE-2008-3790 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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."

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