CVE-2013-1812 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the ruby-openid gem (versions prior to 2.2.2), affecting products like Fedora and Janrain. Remote OpenID providers can trigger high CPU consumption through large XRDS documents or XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attacks. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3 (medium severity), indicating a network-based attack with medium complexity and potential for partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
17CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:17:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
18CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:18:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 2.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:janrain:ruby-openid:*:-:-:*:-:ruby:*:* | ||
2.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:janrain:ruby-openid:2.2.0:-:-:*:-:ruby:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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