CVE-2013-0233

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 14.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-04-25 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Devise gem 2.2.x before 2.2.3, 2.1.x before 2.1.3, 2.0.x before 2.0.5, and 1.5.x before 1.5.4 for Ruby, when using certain databases, does not properly perform type conversion when performing database queries, which might allow remote attackers to cause incorrect results to be returned and bypass security checks via unknown vectors, as demonstrated by resetting passwords of arbitrary accounts.

Affected products

Opensuse: 12.2
Plataformatec Devise ruby gem: 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3, 2.0.0, 2.0.1 (+9)

References

http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2013/01/security-announcement-devise-v2-2-3-v2-1-3-v2-0-5-and-v1-5-3-released/
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00000.html
http://www.metasploit.com/modules/auxiliary/admin/http/rails_devise_pass_reset
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/29/3
http://www.phenoelit.org/blog/archives/2013/02/05/mysql_madness_and_rails/index.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57577
https://github.com/Snorby/snorby/issues/261
http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2013/01/security-announcement-devise-v2-2-3-v2-1-3-v2-0-5-and-v1-5-3-released/
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00000.html
http://www.metasploit.com/modules/auxiliary/admin/http/rails_devise_pass_reset
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/29/3
http://www.phenoelit.org/blog/archives/2013/02/05/mysql_madness_and_rails/index.html

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