CVE-2013-1812
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.
02 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.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.13% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 81.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2013-12-12 18:00Z12 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 15:13Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2013-02-19
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 0c9a5484fc41f8ac1a98aab642317761ce05f0f59a109262d133a15abae06549
05 Affected products
06 References
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=918134
- github.comhttps://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2013-20238http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/120361.html
- github.comhttps://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/pull/43
- github.comhttps://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/commit/a3693cef06049563f5b4e4824f4d3211288508ed
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2013-20260http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/120204.html
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20130302 Re: CVE request: ruby-openid XML denial of service attackhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/03/8
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- ruby-openid Fixed in 2.1.8debian-6
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- ruby-openid Fixed in 2.1.8debian-6
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- ruby-openid Fixed in 2.1.8debian-6
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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