Denial of Service Vulnerability in Active Support in Ruby on Rails

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Active Support in Ruby on Rails

CVE-2015-3227 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The (1) jdom.rb and (2) rexml.rb components in Active Support in Ruby on Rails before 4.1.11 and 4.2.x before 4.2.2, when JDOM or REXML is enabled, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (SystemStackError) via a large XML document depth.

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