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CVE-2013-4457

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-11-02 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

The Cocaine gem 0.4.0 through 0.5.2 for Ruby allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted has object, related to recursive variable interpolation.

Affected products

• thoughtbot Cocaine: 0.4.0, 0.4.1, 0.4.2, 0.5.0, 0.5.1, 0.5.2

References

• http://osvdb.org/98835
• http://secunia.com/advisories/55365
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/22/10
• https://github.com/thoughtbot/cocaine/blob/master/NEWS.md
• http://osvdb.org/98835
• http://secunia.com/advisories/55365
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/22/10
• https://github.com/thoughtbot/cocaine/blob/master/NEWS.md

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