CVE-2013-1821

Aliases:GHSA-hgg7-cghq-xhf4
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 7
Modified
Published: 09 Apr 2013, 21:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 15:13

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
25/100
CVSS Score
5 MEDIUM
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
25.73% HIGH
26% probability +5.06%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

09 Apr 2013, 21:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 15:13
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

lib/rexml/text.rb in the REXML parser in Ruby before 1.9.3-p392 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via crafted text nodes in an XML document, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

CVSS Metrics

  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 25.73%• Percentile: 96%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-20•Improper Input Validation

    The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

Affected Systems

  • org.jruby•jruby

    < 1.7.3

  • ruby-lang•ruby

    ≤ 1.9.3 | 1.9 | 1.9.1 | 1.9.2 | 1.9.3 | 1.9.3:p0 | 1.9.3:p125 | 1.9.3:p194 | 1.9.3:p286 | 1.9.3:p383 | 2.0 | 2.0.0 | 2.0.0:rc1 | 2.0.0:rc2

References (27)