CVE-2013-6414
actionpack/lib/action_view/lookup_context.rb in Action View in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.2.16 and 4.x before 4.0.2 allows remote…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 20.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 2.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
actionpack/lib/action_view/lookup_context.rb in Action View in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.2.16 and 4.x before 4.0.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a header containing an invalid MIME type that leads to excessive caching.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module for it.
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Metasploit modules1 module
- Ruby on Rails Action View MIME Memory Exhaustion (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/dos/http/rails_action_viewRank normaldisclosed 4 Dec 2013
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 33 days later
· 33 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 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 20.7% · top 2.4% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemsactionpackGHSA-mpxf-gcw2-pw5q (opens in a new tab)
References
13
- RHSA-2014:0008 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1906 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 57836 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2014:0009 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1907 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1904 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2013-6414 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/12/3/Rails_3_2_16_and_4_0_2_have_been_released/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [ruby-security-ann] 20131203 [CVE-2013-6414] Denial of Service Vulnerability in Action View (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- RHSA-2014:1863 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:1794 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://www.getchef.com/blog/2014/04/09/enterprise-chef-11-1-3-release/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-2888 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_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-2017-0274 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-mpxf-gcw2-pw5q (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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