CVE-2013-1812
N/A
Published: December 12, 2013 at 06:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:52 PM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsFedoraRuby Openid
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
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.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Ruby Openid· Janrainrubygems
95%v ≤ 2.2.12.2.0
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
- 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://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/commit/a3693cef06049563f5b4e4824f4d3211288508ed
References (7)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/120204.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/120361.htmlMailing Listx_refsource_MLISTPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/03/8x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/blob/master/CHANGELOG.mdx_refsource_CONFIRMExploitPatch
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/commit/a3693cef06049563f5b4e4824f4d3211288508edQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-399
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