CVE-2013-0277

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-02-13 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

ActiveRecord in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.17 and 3.x before 3.1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code via crafted serialized attributes that cause the +serialize+ helper to deserialize arbitrary YAML.

Affected products

Ruby on Rails: 3.0.0, 3.0.0-beta, 3.0.0-beta2, 3.0.0-beta3, 3.0.0-beta4, 3.0.0-rc (+52)
rubyonrails Ruby On Rails: 3.0.4

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Jun/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00048.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/52112
http://securitytracker.com/id?1028109
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5784
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/2/11/SEC-ANN-Rails-3-2-12-3-1-11-and-2-3-17-have-been-released/
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2620
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/11/6
http://www.osvdb.org/90073
https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/302ec7ce90f13837?dmode=source&output=gplain
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2013-0277
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Jun/msg00000.html

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