CVE-2013-1800
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 5.0% (92th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2017-0271)
- Published
- April 9, 2013
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2017-0271 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- john nunemaker / crack
- john nunemaker / crack
- john nunemaker / crack
- john nunemaker / crack
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00003.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52897(Vendor Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804721
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917236
- 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
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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