CVEvulnerability

CVE-2013-1856

5.8 MEDIUM Published 2013-03-19 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-03-19
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

The ActiveSupport::XmlMini_JDOM backend in lib/active_support/xml_mini/jdom.rb in the Active Support component in Ruby on Rails 3.0.x and 3.1.x before 3.1.12 and 3.2.x before 3.2.13, when JRuby is used, does not properly restrict the capabilities of the XML parser, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files or cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via vectors involving (1) an external DTD or (2) an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference.

Affected configurations

• rubyonrails rails 3.1.0 • rubyonrails rails 3.1.1 • rubyonrails rails 3.1.2 • rubyonrails rails 3.1.3 • rubyonrails rails 3.1.4 • rubyonrails rails 3.1.5 • rubyonrails rails 3.1.6 • rubyonrails rails 3.1.7 • rubyonrails rails 3.1.8 • rubyonrails rails 3.1.9 • rubyonrails rails 3.1.10 • rubyonrails rails 3.2.0 • rubyonrails rails 3.2.1 • rubyonrails rails 3.2.2 • rubyonrails rails 3.2.3 • rubyonrails rails 3.2.4 • rubyonrails rails 3.2.5 • rubyonrails rails 3.2.6 • rubyonrails rails 3.2.7 • rubyonrails rails 3.2.8 • rubyonrails rails 3.2.9 • rubyonrails rails 3.2.10 • rubyonrails rails 3.2.11 • rubyonrails rails 3.2.12 • rubyonrails ruby on rails 3.1.11

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References