THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2013-0175
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2013-0175

Multi Xml vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
3.7%
EPSS pct
88th
Exploited
No known
multi_xml gem 0.5.2 for Ruby, as used in Grape before 0.2.6 and possibly other products, does not properly restrict casts of string values, which allows remote attackers to conduct object-injection attacks and execute arbitrary code, or cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) involving nested XML entity references, by leveraging support for (1) YAML type conversion or (2) Symbol type conversion, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2013-0156.
Affected vendor
Erik Michaels Ober
Affected product
Multi Xml
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation
Published
2013-04-25

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2013-0175

  • Confirm whether Erik Michaels Ober Multi Xml is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2013-0175.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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