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CVE-2013-1802

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
09/04/2013
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

The extlib gem 0.9.15 and earlier for Ruby does not properly restrict casts of string values, which might allow remote attackers to conduct object-injection attacks and execute arbitrary code, or cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) by leveraging Action Pack 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:dan_kubb:extlib:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 0.9.15 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:dan_kubb:extlib:0.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dan_kubb:extlib:0.9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dan_kubb:extlib:0.9.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dan_kubb:extlib:0.9.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dan_kubb:extlib:0.9.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dan_kubb:extlib:0.9.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dan_kubb:extlib:0.9.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dan_kubb:extlib:0.9.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dan_kubb:extlib:0.9.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dan_kubb:extlib:0.9.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dan_kubb:extlib:0.9.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dan_kubb:extlib:0.9.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dan_kubb:extlib:0.9.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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


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