{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2008-3790 exists.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2008-3790 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Ruby-Lang Ruby, published on 27 Aug 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2008-3790 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2008-3790 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Ruby-Lang Ruby, published on 27 Aug 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2008-3790 exists.\n\nAffected product: Ruby-Lang Ruby. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-3790/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-3790/index.md)","id":"CVE-2008-3790","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-3790/index.md","name":"CVE-2008-3790","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-96jc-f6m3-pf2w"],"analysis":{"component_type":"library","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Ruby XML library","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Attackers can cause denial of service via CPU exhaustion by sending XML with recursively nested entities to applications using the Ruby REXML module.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"ruby","vendor":"ruby-lang"}],"cvss":{"score":5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P","version":"2.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-20","name":"Improper Input Validation"}],"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.\"","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":1,"first_seen":"2008-08-23","github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2008-08-23","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"32292","stars":null,"title":"Ruby 1.9 - REXML Remote Denial of Service"}],"tier":"weaponised"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2008-3790","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"ruby-lang:ruby","products":["ruby-lang:ruby"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2008"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":35,"next":{"headline":"Path traversal in n/a","id":"CVE-2008-3791"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Missing authorization in n/a","id":"CVE-2008-3789"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2008-08-27","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2009-4124","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2009-12-11"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Use after free in n/a","id":"CVE-2022-28738","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-05-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Weak cryptography in OpenSSL extension of Ruby (Git trunk)","id":"CVE-2011-4121","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-11-26"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Command injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-17790","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-12-20"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-11465","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-07-19"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in Ruby","id":"CVE-2016-2336","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-01-06"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Code injection in Ruby","id":"CVE-2016-2337","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-01-06"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"GPL-2.0-or-later","name":"Exploit-DB"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-07","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Attackers can cause denial of service via CPU exhaustion by sending XML with recursively nested entities to applications using the Ruby REXML module.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-3790/"}