class Dawn::Kb::CVE_2014_8090

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# File lib/dawn/kb/cve_2014_8090.rb, line 7
def initialize
  message = "The REXML parser in Ruby 1.9.x before 1.9.3 patchlevel 551, 2.0.x before 2.0.0 patchlevel 598, and 2.1.x before 2.1.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) a crafted XML document containing an empty string in an entity that is used in a large number of nested entity references, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-1821 and CVE-2014-8080."

  super({
    :name=>"CVE-2014-8090",
    :cvss=>"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P",
    :release_date => Date.new(2014, 11, 21),
    :cwe=>"611",
    :owasp=>"A9",
    :applies=>["rails", "sinatra", "padrino"],
    :kind=>Dawn::KnowledgeBase::RUBY_VERSION_CHECK,
    :message=>message,
    :mitigation=>"Please upgrade ruby interpreter to 1.9.3-p551 or 2.0.0-p598 or 2.1.5. Please note that latest 2.2.x version is suggested.",
    :aux_links=>["https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/11/13/rexml-dos-cve-2014-8090/"]
  })

  self.safe_rubies = [{:engine=>"ruby", :version=>"1.9.3", :patchlevel=>"p551"},
                      {:engine=>"ruby", :version=>"2.0.0", :patchlevel=>"p598"},
                      {:engine=>"ruby", :version=>"2.1.5", :patchlevel=>"p0"}]

end