Vulnerability in John Nunemaker Crack
CVE-2013-1800
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.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.050 (91.9th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 92nd percentile — 91.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.050 · newest: 0.050 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- John Nunemaker Crack — versions 0.1.8, 0.2.0, 0.3.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
- secunia.com/advisories/52897 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00003.html (vendor-advisory)
- support.cloud.engineyard.com/entries/22915701-january-14-2013-security-vulnerab…
- github.com/jnunemaker/crack/commit/e3da1212a1f84a898ee3601336d1dbbf118fb5f6 (Exploit, Patch)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2013-1800?
- CVE-2013-1800 is a vulnerability in John Nunemaker Crack, classified under CWE-264. Published 2013-04-09.
- Is CVE-2013-1800 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.