CVE-2013-1821: Entity expansion DoS vulnerability in REXML

April 9, 2013 (updated December 7, 2016)

lib/rexml/text.rb in the REXML parser allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via crafted text nodes in an XML document, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

References

github.com/victims/victims-cve-db/blob/master/database/java/2013/1821.yaml

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