cve/2013/CVE-2013-1821.md

### [CVE-2013-1821](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-1821)
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### Description

lib/rexml/text.rb in the REXML parser in Ruby before 1.9.3-p392 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via crafted text nodes in an XML document, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html

#### Github
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