CVE-2015-3227
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
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.
Find out more about CVE-2015-3227 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
CVSS v2 metrics
NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| Base Score | 4.3 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Medium |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
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Affected Packages State
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1 | rubygem-activesupport | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1 | ruby193-rubygem-activesupport | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux | ruby193-rubygem-activesupport | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux | rh-ror41-rubygem-activesupport | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux | ror40-rubygem-activesupport | Will not fix |
Acknowledgements
Red Hat would like to thank the Ruby upstream developers for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Tomek Rabczak from the NCC Group, and Matthew Draper as the original reporters.CVE description copyright © 2017, The MITRE Corporation