PT-2013-3399 · Ruby · Crack Gem

Tasha Drew · Published 2013-04-09 · Updated 2017-10-24 · CVE-2013-1800

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions crack gem versions 0.3.1 and earlier

Description The issue is related to the improper restriction of casts of string values, which could allow remote attackers to conduct object-injection attacks, execute arbitrary code, or cause a denial of service by consuming memory and CPU. This is achieved by leveraging Action Pack support for YAML type conversion or Symbol type conversion.

Recommendations For crack gem versions 0.3.1 and earlier, update to a version later than 0.3.1 to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast

Special Elements Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-704

CWE-264

CWE-74

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-1800

GHSA-M7FQ-CF8Q-35Q7

Affected Products

Crack Gem

References · 17

• 🔥 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/crack/CVE-2013-1800.yml · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/jnunemaker/crack/commit/e3da1212a1f84a898ee3601336d1dbbf118fb5f6 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1800 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-1800 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00003.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-1800 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/52897 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-1800 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-1800 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-m7fq-cf8q-35q7 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2013-1800 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2013-1800 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/jnunemaker/crack · Note
• https://web.archive.org/web/20130203232028/https://support.cloud.engineyard.com/entries/22915701-january-14-2013-security-vulnerabilities-httparty-extlib-crack-nori-update-these-gems-immediately · Note
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804721 · Note