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CVE-2013-0175

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-20 Input Validation
Publication date:
25/04/2013
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

multi_xml gem 0.5.2 for Ruby, as used in Grape before 0.2.6 and possibly other products, does not properly restrict casts of string values, which allows remote attackers to conduct object-injection attacks and execute arbitrary code, or cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) involving nested XML entity references, by leveraging support for (1) YAML type conversion or (2) Symbol type conversion, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2013-0156.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
7.50
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:erik_michaels-ober:multi_xml:0.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:erik_michaels-ober:multi_xml:0.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:grape_project:grape:0.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:grape_project:grape:0.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:grape_project:grape:0.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:grape_project:grape:0.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:grape_project:grape:0.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:grape_project:grape:0.1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:grape_project:grape:0.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:grape_project:grape:0.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:grape_project:grape:0.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:grape_project:grape:0.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:grape_project:grape:0.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:grape_project:grape:0.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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