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Denial of service in ruby-openid

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 24, 2017 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 5, 2023

Package

bundler ruby-openid (RubyGems)

Affected versions

< 2.2.2

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 12, 2013
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 24, 2017
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Nov 5, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(83rd percentile)

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2013-1812

GHSA ID

GHSA-6c8p-qphv-668v

Source code

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