CVE-2008-3790

28Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 15%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDAug 27

1st PoCAug 23

exploitation probability

15%top 4% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

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."

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/32292

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