Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting crack package, versions < 0.3.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
12.12% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-CRACK-20049
  • published8 Jan 2013
  • disclosed8 Jan 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Jan 2013

CVE-2013-1800  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

crack is a gem for parsing JSON and XML.

Affected versions of this gem are vulnerable because they do not properly restrict casts of string values. This may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, or cause a denial of service (DoS).

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1