CVE-2013-1812

Description

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.

References

https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/pull/43

https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=918134

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/03/8

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/120361.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/120204.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3