CVE-2015-3227 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Rails

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption10 documents7 sources
Severity
5.0MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
2.7%
top 14.13%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Rubyonrails RailsOpensuse
Timeline
PublishedJul 26
Latest updateOct 24

Description

The (1) jdom.rb and (2) rexml.rb components in Active Support in Ruby on Rails before 4.1.11 and 4.2.x before 4.2.2, when JDOM or REXML is enabled, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (SystemStackError) via a large XML document depth.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:N/I:N/A:PExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶Debianrubyonrails/rails< 2:4.2.4-2+3
▶NVDrubyonrails/rails11 versions+10
▶NVDopensuse/opensuse13.1, 13.2+1

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
activesupport vulnerable to Denial of Service via large XML document depth↗2017-10-24
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OSV
activesupport vulnerable to Denial of Service via large XML document depth↗2017-10-24
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CVEList
CVE-2015-3227: The (1) jdom↗2015-07-26
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OSV
CVE-2015-3227: The (1) jdom↗2015-07-26
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
rubygem-activesupport: Possible Denial of Service attack in Active Support in merge_element()↗2015-06-16
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Debian
CVE-2015-3227: rails - The (1) jdom.rb and (2) rexml.rb components in Active Support in Ruby on Rails b...↗2015
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💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-3227 rubygem-activesupport: Possible Denial of Service attack in Active Support in merge_element() [fedora-all]↗2015-07-31
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Bugzilla
CVE-2015-3227 rubygem-activesupport: Possible Denial of Service attack in Active Support in merge_element() [epel-all]↗2015-07-31
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Bugzilla
CVE-2015-3227 rubygem-activesupport: Possible Denial of Service attack in Active Support in merge_element()↗2015-06-16
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