CVE-2015-3227

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 9 years ago

2015-07-26 22:59:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-08-08 15:43:00

Affected Software

OpenSUSE 13.1

13.1

OpenSUSE 13.2

13.2

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.1.1

4.1.1

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.1.3

4.1.3

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.1.4

4.1.4

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.1.5

4.1.5

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.1.7

4.1.7

Ruby on Rails Rails 4.1.8

4.1.8

References

openSUSE-SU-2015:1279

[oss-security] 20150616 [CVE-2015-3227] Possible Denial of Service attack in Active Support

DSA-3464

75234

1033755

[rubyonrails-security] 20150616 [CVE-2015-3227] Possible Denial of Service attack in Active Support

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