GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems

GHSA-pchc-949f-53m5 Improper Input Validation in multi_xml

HIGH Published 2017-10-24 Modified 2023-02-13 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2013-0175
Ecosystem
RubyGems
Packages
multi_xml
Severity
High
Weaknesses
CWE-20
Reviewed
2020-06-16

Affected packages

• RubyGems multi_xml: < 0.5.2 → fixed in 0.5.2

Description

multi_xml gem 0.5.2 for Ruby, as used in Grape before 0.2.6 and possibly other products, does not properly restrict casts of string values, which allows remote attackers to conduct object-injection attacks and execute arbitrary code, or cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) involving nested XML entity references, by leveraging support for (1) YAML type conversion or (2) Symbol type conversion, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2013-0156.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2013-0175 multi_xml gem 0.5.2 for Ruby, as used in Grape before 0.2.6 and possibly other products, does not properly restrict casts of string values,… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References