CVE-2013-6414

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 20.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-12-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

actionpack/lib/action_view/lookup_context.rb in Action View in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.2.16 and 4.x before 4.0.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a header containing an invalid MIME type that leads to excessive caching.

Affected products

Ruby on Rails: through 4.0.1; 4.0.0, 4.0.0-beta, 4.0.0-rc1, 4.0.0-rc2, 4.0.1-rc1, 3.0.0 (+93)
rubyonrails Ruby On Rails: through 3.2.15; 3.0.4, 3.1.11, 3.2.14, 3.2.14-rc1, 3.2.14-rc2, 3.2.15-rc1 (+1)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00079.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00081.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00082.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00003.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1794.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0008.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1863.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/57836
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/12/3/Rails_3_2_16_and_4_0_2_have_been_released/
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2888
http://www.getchef.com/blog/2014/04/09/enterprise-chef-11-1-3-release/
https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=ruby-security-ann/A-ebV4WxzKg/KNPTbX8XAQUJ

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