CVE detail
CVE-2008-3790 — CVE-2008-3790
Published 2008-08-27 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor ruby-lang · Product ruby · Source nvd
UNKNOWN
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.1520
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
96.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog
Description
The REXML module in Ruby 1.8.6 through 1.8.6-p287, 1.8.7 through 1.8.7-p72, and 1.9 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an XML document with recursively nested entities, aka an "XML entity explosion."
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References