CVE-2014-0082

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-02-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

actionpack/lib/action_view/template/text.rb in Action View in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.2.17 converts MIME type strings to symbols during use of the :text option to the render method, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by including these strings in headers.

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 (+90)
rubyonrails Ruby On Rails: through 3.2.16; 3.0.4, 3.2.14, 3.2.14-rc1, 3.2.14-rc2, 3.2.15-rc1, 3.2.15-rc2

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00081.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/18/10
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0215.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0306.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/57376
http://secunia.com/advisories/57836
http://www.getchef.com/blog/2014/04/09/enterprise-chef-11-1-3-release/
https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/LMxO_3_eCuc/ozGBEhKaJbIJ
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2014-0082
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00081.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/18/10
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0215.html

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