XML Entity Expansion (XEE) Attack in REXML Parser in Ruby

CVE-2013-1821 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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.

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