CVE-2014-8080

mediumpriority · track · 22EPSS 0.056 · 93 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

5.64% (93rd) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

25 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-22

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-786USLLM-inferred

affected products (25)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Open Source Rubyall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ruby-lang:ruby:-
Open Source Ruby 1.9.x <1.9.3 patchlevel 550all versionscert_bundDE
Open Source Ruby 2.0.x <2.0.0 patchlevel 594all versionscert_bundDE
Open Source Ruby 2.1.x <2.1.4all versionscert_bundDE
SUSE Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:-
Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTSall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts
Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTSall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts
Ubuntu Linux 14.10all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.10
Open Source Ruby≤ 1.9.x <1.9.3 patchlevel 550cert_bundDE
Open Source Ruby≤ 2.0.x <2.0.0 patchlevel 594cert_bundDE
Open Source Ruby≤ 2.1.x <2.1.4cert_bundDE
n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
canonical ubuntu linux= 12.04nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu linux= 14.04nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu linux= 14.10nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
opensuse opensuse= 12.3nvdUScpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
opensuse opensuse= 13.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise linux= 6.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise linux= 7.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ruby-lang ruby≤ 1.9.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2026-1417Ruby: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2014-11-05csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Ruby und Ubuntu Linux ausnutzen, um beliebigen Programmcode mit den Rechten des Dienstes auszuführen oder einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen.

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2014-11-03modified 2026-06-17

references (43)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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