Detections
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CVE-2013-0175
critical
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.
References
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5040457
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#%21topic/ruby-grape/fthDkMgIOa0
https://github.com/sferik/multi_xml/pull/34