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CVE-2013-1800

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2013-04-09 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

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.

Affected products

• John Nunemaker Crack: through 0.3.1; 0.1.8, 0.2.0, 0.3.0

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00003.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/52897
• 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
• https://support.cloud.engineyard.com/entries/22915701-january-14-2013-security-vulnerabilities-httparty-extlib-crack-nori-update-these-gems-immediately
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00003.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/52897
• 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
• https://support.cloud.engineyard.com/entries/22915701-january-14-2013-security-vulnerabilities-httparty-extlib-crack-nori-update-these-gems-immediately

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