Resource Management Errors Affecting ruby-openid package, versions <2.1.8debian-6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.89% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-RUBYOPENID-5695016
  • published12 Dec 2013
  • disclosed12 Dec 2013

Introduced: 12 Dec 2013

CVE-2013-1812  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 ruby-openid to version 2.1.8debian-6 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby-openid package and not the ruby-openid package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

The ruby-openid gem before 2.2.2 for Ruby allows remote OpenID providers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via (1) a large XRDS document or (2) an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1