Vulnerability Report

CVE-2013-1812

Title: Janrain Ruby-Openid Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2013-1812.

CWE Category CWE-399
Published Date Dec 12, 2013
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
2.13%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2013-1812: 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.

Impacted Vendors

J
janrain 1
O
openid 1

Reference Links

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/120204.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/120361.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/03/8 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=918134 https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/commit/a3693cef06049563f5b4e4824f4d3211288508ed https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/pull/43 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/120204.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/120361.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/03/8 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=918134 https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/commit/a3693cef06049563f5b4e4824f4d3211288508ed https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/pull/43
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.3
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2013-1812 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.