PT-2013-3400 · Ruby · Httparty

Tasha Drew · Published 2013-04-09 · Updated 2026-01-07 · CVE-2013-1801

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 httparty gem version 0.9.0 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. This might lead to the execution of arbitrary code or cause a denial of service due to memory and CPU consumption. The vulnerability is related to Action Pack support for YAML type conversion.

Recommendations For httparty gem version 0.9.0 and earlier, update to a version later than 0.9.0 to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Special Elements Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

CWE-74

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-1801

GHSA-MGX3-27HR-MFGP

Affected Products

Httparty

References · 10

• 🔥 https://github.com/jnunemaker/httparty/commit/53a812426dd32108d6cba4272b493aa03bc8c031 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/httparty/CVE-2013-1801.yml · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-mgx3-27hr-mfgp · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1801 · Security Note
• https://github.com/jnunemaker/httparty · Note
• https://t.me/cveNotify/147966 · Telegram Post
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/58260 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917229 · Note
• https://web.archive.org/web/20200229101716/http://securityfocus.com/bid/58260 · Note
• https://support.cloud.engineyard.com/entries/22915701-january-14-2013-security-vulnerabilities-httparty-extlib-crack-nori-update-these-gems-immediately · Note