### [CVE-2014-8080](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8080)
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### Description

The REXML parser in Ruby 1.9.x before 1.9.3-p550, 2.0.x before 2.0.0-p594, and 2.1.x before 2.1.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted XML document, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html

#### Github
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