CVE-2015-3227

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Summary

CVECVE-2015-3227
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-07-26 22:59:06 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionThe (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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.2 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.1.0 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.1.1 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.1.2 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.1.3 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.1.4 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.1.5 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.1.6 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.1.7 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.1.8 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.0 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 4.2.1 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3464-1 rails af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
groups.google.com/forum/message/raw af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 groups.google.com Vendor Advisory
openSUSE-SU-2015:1279-1: moderate: Security update for rubygem-activesup af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
Ruby on Rails activesupport CVE-2015-3227 XML Parsing Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Rails Bugs Let Remote Users Deny Service and Conduct Cross-Site Scripting Attacks - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com
oss-security - [CVE-2015-3227] Possible Denial of Service attack in Active Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 openwall.com
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