CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-1856
5.8 MEDIUM
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- 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
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Jun/msg00000.html lists.apple.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Oct/msg00006.html lists.apple.com
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5784 support.apple.com
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/3/18/SEC-ANN-Rails-3-2-13-3-1-12-and-2-3-18-have-been-released/ weblog.rubyonrails.org
- https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/6c2482d4ed1545e6?dmode=source&output=gplain groups.google.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Jun/msg00000.html lists.apple.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Oct/msg00006.html lists.apple.com
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5784 support.apple.com
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/3/18/SEC-ANN-Rails-3-2-13-3-1-12-and-2-3-18-have-been-released/ weblog.rubyonrails.org
- https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/6c2482d4ed1545e6?dmode=source&output=gplain groups.google.com