CVE-2013-4164
Heap-based buffer overflow in Ruby 1.8, 1.9 before 1.9.3-p484, 2.0 before 2.0.0-p353, 2.1 before 2.1.0 preview2, and trunk before revision 43780 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a string that is converted to a floating point value, as demonstrated using (1) the to_f method or (2) JSON.parse.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 35.0% (98th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2013-4089)
- Published
- November 23, 2013
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2013-4089 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- ruby-lang / ruby
- ruby-lang / ruby
- ruby-lang / ruby
- ruby-lang / ruby
- ruby-lang / ruby
- ruby-lang / ruby
- ruby-lang / ruby
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2014-04/0134.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2014-10/0103.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00009.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00027.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00028.html
- http://osvdb.org/100113
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1763.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1764.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1767.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0011.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0215.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55787(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57376
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2809
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2810
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63873
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2035-1
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4164
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT6536
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/11/22/heap-overflow-in-floating-point-parsing-cve-2013-4164(Exploit)
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/11/22/ruby-1-9-3-p484-is-released
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/11/22/ruby-2-0-0-p353-is-released(Patch)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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