Description
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.
Metrics
CVSS 2.0 4.3/10
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:PWeakness enumeration
Affected software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| n/a | n/a | n/a |
References
- 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/2013/03/03/8Patch
- 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/a3693cef06049563f5b4e4824f4d3211288508edExploit, Patch
- 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/2013/03/03/8Patch
- 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/a3693cef06049563f5b4e4824f4d3211288508edExploit, Patch
- https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/pull/43
Timeline
- Published
- Dec 12, 2013
- Last modified
- Jun 16, 2026
- NVD status
- Modified