ADVISORIES

• CVE-2013-1812 (NVD)
• GHSA-6c8p-qphv-668v
• Vendor Advisory

GEM

ruby-openid

SEVERITY

CVSS v2.0: 4.3 (Medium)

PATCHED VERSIONS

• >= 2.2.2

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.

RELATED

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1812
• https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
• https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/pull/43
• https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/commit/a3693cef06049563f5b4e4824f4d3211288508ed
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6c8p-qphv-668v
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=918134
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/120204.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/120361.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/03/8