CVE-2013-0183

medium
Published 2013-01-07 · Modified 2024-12-03
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
5.0
VIR risk
5.0

Description

multipart/parser.rb in Rack 1.3.x before 1.3.8 and 1.4.x before 1.4.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and out-of-memory error) via a long string in a Multipart HTTP packet.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-0183

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1.4.1-2.1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.4.1-2.1
debian debianforkyfixed1.4.1-2.1
debian debiansidfixed1.4.1-2.1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.4.1-2.1

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
ruby RubyGemsrack<~> 1.3.8~> 1.3.8
ruby RubyGemsrack>=1.3.0,<1.3.81.3.8
ruby RubyGemsrack>=1.4.0,<1.4.31.4.3

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
rack_projectrack1.3.0
rack_projectrack1.3.1
rack_projectrack1.3.2
rack_projectrack1.3.3
rack_projectrack1.3.4
rack_projectrack1.3.5
rack_projectrack1.3.6
rack_projectrack1.3.7
rack_projectrack1.4.0
rack_projectrack1.4.1
rack_projectrack1.4.2

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.