CVE-2013-6461: Entity Expansion Vulnerability when using JRuby

November 5, 2019 (updated November 8, 2019)

An error when parsing XML entities can be exploited to exhaust memory and cause the server to crash via a specially crafted XML document including external entity references. Impacted code will look something like this: doc = Nokogiri.XML(untrusted_input).

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