PT-2013-6037 · Ruby+1 · Ruby On Rails+1

Toby Hsieh · Published 2013-12-07 · Updated 2019-08-08 · CVE-2013-6414

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Action View in Ruby on Rails versions 3.x through 3.2.15 Action View in Ruby on Rails versions 4.x through 4.0.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in memory consumption, via a header containing an invalid MIME type that leads to excessive caching. This occurs due to a problem in actionpack/lib/action view/lookup context.rb.

Recommendations For Action View in Ruby on Rails versions 3.x through 3.2.15, update to version 3.2.16 or later. For Action View in Ruby on Rails versions 4.x through 4.0.1, update to version 4.0.2 or later.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-6414

DSA-2888-1

GHSA-MPXF-GCW2-PW5Q

RHSA-2013:1794

RHSA-2014:0008

Affected Products

Ruby On Rails

Suse

References · 25

• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/auxiliary/dos/http/rails_action_view.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionpack/CVE-2013-6414.yml · Exploit
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00082.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2888 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00081.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1794.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00079.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1863.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0008.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/12/3/Rails_3_2_16_and_4_0_2_have_been_released · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00003.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6414 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2013-6414 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-mpxf-gcw2-pw5q · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-6414 · Vendor Advisory