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[MAVEN:GHSA-HGG7-CGHQ-XHF4] Ruby vulnerable to denial of service

Severity Moderate
Affected Packages 1
Fixed Packages 1
CVEs 1
Info Packages References Vulnerabilities

When reading text nodes from an XML document, the REXML parser can be coerced in to allocating extremely large string objects which can consume all of the memory on a machine, causing a denial of service.

Jruby resolves this bug in version 1.7.3 as noted in https://www.jruby.org/2013/02/21/jruby-1-7-3.html

Package Affected Version
pkg:maven/org.jruby/jruby < 1.7.3
Package Fixed Version
pkg:maven/org.jruby/jruby = 1.7.3
ID
MAVEN:GHSA-HGG7-CGHQ-XHF4
Severity
moderate
URL
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hgg7-cghq-xhf4
Published
2022-05-17T03:23:26
(2 years ago)
Modified
2023-08-16T09:36:13
(13 months ago)
Rights
Maven Security Team
Other Advisories
Type Package URL Namespace Name / Product Version Distribution / Platform Arch Patch / Fix
Affected pkg:maven/org.jruby/jruby org.jruby jruby < 1.7.3
Fixed pkg:maven/org.jruby/jruby org.jruby jruby = 1.7.3
# CVE Description CVSS EPSS EPSS Trend (30 days) Affected Products Weaknesses Security Advisories Exploits PoC Pubblication Date Modification Date
# CVE Description CVSS EPSS EPSS Trend (30 days) Affected Products Weaknesses Security Advisories PoC Pubblication Date Modification Date