CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-1800
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-04-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The crack gem 0.3.1 and earlier for Ruby does not properly restrict casts of string values, which might allow remote attackers to conduct object-injection attacks and execute arbitrary code, or cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) by leveraging Action Pack support for (1) YAML type conversion or (2) Symbol type conversion, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2013-0156.
Affected configurations
• john nunemaker crack (<= 0.3.1)
• john nunemaker crack 0.1.8
• john nunemaker crack 0.2.0
• john nunemaker crack 0.3.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00003.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52897 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804721 bugzilla.novell.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917236 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/jnunemaker/crack/commit/e3da1212a1f84a898ee3601336d1dbbf118fb5f6 Exploit, Patch
- https://support.cloud.engineyard.com/entries/22915701-january-14-2013-security-vulnerabilities-httparty-extlib-crack-nori-update-these-gems-immediately support.cloud.engineyard.com
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00003.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52897 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804721 bugzilla.novell.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917236 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/jnunemaker/crack/commit/e3da1212a1f84a898ee3601336d1dbbf118fb5f6 Exploit, Patch
- https://support.cloud.engineyard.com/entries/22915701-january-14-2013-security-vulnerabilities-httparty-extlib-crack-nori-update-these-gems-immediately support.cloud.engineyard.com