CVE-2013-1812 (GCVE-0-2013-1812)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-12-12 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 15:13
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
7 references
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|---|---|
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=918134 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/blob/master… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
| https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/pull/43 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/commit/a369… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/03/8 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
Date Public
2012-10-22 00:00
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