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CVE-2013-0175

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-0175 describes an object-injection vulnerability in multi_xml gem 0.5.2 for Ruby, affecting products like Grape before 0.2.6. This flaw stems from improper restriction of string value casts, enabling remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause denial of service through YAML or Symbol type conversion. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it is considered highly severe, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:erik_michaels-ober:multi_xml:0.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:grape_project:grape:0.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:grape_project:grape:0.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:grape_project:grape:0.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:grape_project:grape:0.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.65%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0365 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: multi_xmlFixed in: 0.5.2

Vendor Advisories (1)

rubygemsGHSA-pchc-949f-53m5high

Improper Input Validation in multi_xml

Oct 24, 2017

References

gist.github.com / nate/d7f6d9f4925f413621aa
github.com / sferik/multi_xml/pull/34
groups.google.com / forum
news.ycombinator.com / item
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2013/01/11/9