CVE-2013-1812
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.3
Description
The ruby-openid gem before 2.2.2 for Ruby allows remote OpenID providers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via (1) a large XRDS document or (2) an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| fedora | 17 | affected | |
| fedora | 18 | affected | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 2.1.8debian-6 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 2.1.8debian-6 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 2.1.8debian-6 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 2.1.8debian-6 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 2.1.8debian-6 |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| RubyGems | ruby-openid | <>= 2.2.2 | >= 2.2.2 |
| RubyGems | ruby-openid | <2.2.2 | 2.2.2 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| janrain | ruby-openid | {"endIncluding":"2.2.1"} | |
| janrain | ruby-openid | 2.2.0 | |
References
- https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/120204.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/120361.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/03/8
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=918134
- https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/commit/a3693cef06049563f5b4e4824f4d3211288508ed
- https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/pull/43
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1812
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6c8p-qphv-668v
- https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/ruby-openid/CVE-2013-1812.yml
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-1812
CWEs
CWE-399
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.