Vulnerability advisory

GHSA-j96r-xvjq-r9pg

activesupport vulnerable to Denial of Service via large XML document depth

Published Oct 24, 2017Updated Mar 31, 2025OSV record ↗

Also known as CVE-2015-3227

Severity

Severity not reported.

Affected versions

activesupport RubyGems

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Affected	Fixed in
`4.0.0.beta1` to before 4.1.11	`4.1.11`Advisories →
Also listed as affected (55) `4.0.0` `4.0.0.beta1` `4.0.0.rc1` `4.0.0.rc2` `4.0.1` `4.0.1.rc1` `4.0.1.rc2` `4.0.1.rc3` `4.0.1.rc4` `4.0.10` `4.0.10.rc1` `4.0.10.rc2` `4.0.11` `4.0.11.1` `4.0.12` `4.0.13` `4.0.13.rc1` `4.0.2` `4.0.3` `4.0.4` `4.0.4.rc1` `4.0.5` `4.0.6` `4.0.6.rc1` `4.0.6.rc2` `4.0.6.rc3` `4.0.7` `4.0.8` `4.0.9` `4.1.0` `4.1.0.beta1` `4.1.0.beta2` `4.1.0.rc1` `4.1.0.rc2` `4.1.1` `4.1.10` `4.1.10.rc1` `4.1.10.rc2` `4.1.10.rc3` `4.1.10.rc4` `4.1.2` `4.1.2.rc1` `4.1.2.rc2` `4.1.2.rc3` `4.1.3` `4.1.4` `4.1.5` `4.1.6` `4.1.6.rc1` `4.1.6.rc2` `4.1.7` `4.1.7.1` `4.1.8` `4.1.9` `4.1.9.rc1`
`4.2.0.beta1` to before 4.2.2	`4.2.2`Advisories →
Also listed as affected (13) `4.2.0` `4.2.0.beta1` `4.2.0.beta2` `4.2.0.beta3` `4.2.0.beta4` `4.2.0.rc1` `4.2.0.rc2` `4.2.0.rc3` `4.2.1` `4.2.1.rc1` `4.2.1.rc2` `4.2.1.rc3` `4.2.1.rc4`
All versions before 3.2.22	`3.2.22`Advisories →
Also listed as affected (161) `1.0.0` `1.0.1` `1.0.2` `1.0.3` `1.0.4` `1.1.0` `1.1.1` `1.2.1` `1.2.2` `1.2.3` `1.2.4` `1.2.5` `1.3.0` `1.3.1` `1.4.0` `1.4.1` `1.4.2` `1.4.3` `1.4.4` `2.0.0` `2.0.1` `2.0.2` `2.0.4` `2.0.5` `2.1.0` `2.1.1` `2.1.2` `2.2.2` `2.2.3` `2.3.10` `2.3.11` `2.3.12` `2.3.14` `2.3.15` `2.3.16` `2.3.17` `2.3.18` `2.3.2` `2.3.3` `2.3.4` `2.3.5` `2.3.6` `2.3.6.pre` `2.3.7` `2.3.8` `2.3.8.pre1` `2.3.9` `2.3.9.pre` `3.0.0` `3.0.0.beta` `3.0.0.beta2` `3.0.0.beta3` `3.0.0.beta4` `3.0.0.rc` `3.0.0.rc2` `3.0.1` `3.0.10` `3.0.10.rc1` `3.0.11` `3.0.12` `3.0.12.rc1` `3.0.13` `3.0.13.rc1` `3.0.14` `3.0.15` `3.0.16` `3.0.17` `3.0.18` `3.0.19` `3.0.2` `3.0.20` `3.0.3` `3.0.4` `3.0.4.rc1` `3.0.5` `3.0.5.rc1` `3.0.6` `3.0.6.rc1` `3.0.6.rc2` `3.0.7` `3.0.7.rc1` `3.0.7.rc2` `3.0.8` `3.0.8.rc1` `3.0.8.rc2` `3.0.8.rc4` `3.0.9` `3.0.9.rc1` `3.0.9.rc3` `3.0.9.rc4` `3.0.9.rc5` `3.0.pre` `3.1.0` `3.1.0.beta1` `3.1.0.rc1` `3.1.0.rc2` `3.1.0.rc3` `3.1.0.rc4` `3.1.0.rc5` `3.1.0.rc6` `3.1.0.rc8` `3.1.1` `3.1.1.rc1` `3.1.1.rc2` `3.1.1.rc3` `3.1.10` `3.1.11` `3.1.12` `3.1.2` `3.1.2.rc1` `3.1.2.rc2` `3.1.3` `3.1.4` `3.1.4.rc1` `3.1.5` `3.1.5.rc1` `3.1.6` `3.1.7` `3.1.8` `3.1.9` `3.2.0` `3.2.0.rc1` `3.2.0.rc2` `3.2.1` `3.2.10` `3.2.11` `3.2.12` `3.2.13` `3.2.13.rc1` `3.2.13.rc2` `3.2.14` `3.2.14.rc1` `3.2.14.rc2` `3.2.15` `3.2.15.rc1` `3.2.15.rc2` `3.2.15.rc3` `3.2.16` `3.2.17` `3.2.18` `3.2.19` `3.2.2` `3.2.2.rc1` `3.2.20` `3.2.21` `3.2.3` `3.2.3.rc1` `3.2.3.rc2` `3.2.4` `3.2.4.rc1` `3.2.5` `3.2.6` `3.2.7` `3.2.7.rc1` `3.2.8` `3.2.8.rc1` `3.2.8.rc2` `3.2.9` `3.2.9.rc1` `3.2.9.rc2` `3.2.9.rc3`

Description

The (1) jdom.rb and (2) rexml.rb components in Active Support in Ruby on Rails before 3.2.22, 4.1.x 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.

GHSA-j96r-xvjq-r9pg

Affected versions

activesupport RubyGems

Description

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