CVE-2014-8080: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 5.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The REXML parser in Ruby 1.9.x before 1.9.3-p550, 2.0.x before 2.0.0-p594, and 2.1.x before 2.1.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted XML document, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 14.10 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 12.3 only; version 13.1 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Ruby-Lang Ruby: up to and including 1.9.3; version 1.9.3 only; version 2.0.0 only; version 2.1.1 only; version 2.1.2 only; version 2.1.3 only

Published 2014-11-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.