CVE-2013-1812
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 2.1%EU EUVD
The ruby-openid gem before 2.2.2 for Ruby allows remote OpenID providers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via (1) a large XRDS document or (2) an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-399
- EPSS score
- 2.1% (82th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2017-0174)
- Published
- December 12, 2013
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2017-0174 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- fedoraproject / fedora
- fedoraproject / fedora
- janrain / ruby-openid
- janrain / ruby-openid
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/120204.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/120361.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/03/8(Patch)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=918134
- https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
- https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/commit/a3693cef06049563f5b4e4824f4d3211288508ed(Exploit, Patch)
- https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/pull/43
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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