CVE-2013-1800The crack gem 0.3.1 and earlier for Ruby does not properly restrict casts of string values, which might allow remote attackers to conduct…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 5.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 7.7% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The crack gem 0.3.1 and earlier for Ruby does not properly restrict casts of string values, which might allow remote attackers to conduct object-injection attacks and execute arbitrary code, or cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) by leveraging Action Pack support for (1) YAML type conversion or (2) Symbol type conversion, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2013-0156.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 49 days later
· 49 days later
Published
- 11 years later
· 11 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.0% · top 7.7% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemscrackGHSA-m7fq-cf8q-35q7 (opens in a new tab)
References
References6
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917236 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 52897 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804721 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2013:0615 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://support.cloud.engineyard.com/entries/22915701-january-14-2013-security-vulnerabilities-httparty-extlib-crack-nori-update-these-gems-immediately (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/jnunemaker/crack/commit/e3da1212a1f84a898ee3601336d1dbbf118fb5f6 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2017-0271 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-m7fq-cf8q-35q7 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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