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CVE-2013-6414

31
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-6414 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Ruby on Rails versions 3.x prior to 3.2.16 and 4.x prior to 4.0.2. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this by sending a crafted HTTP header with an invalid MIME type, leading to excessive memory consumption and a denial of service. While the CVSS score is moderate (5.0), its high EPSS and FAUCET Risk Score indicate a significant potential impact. Although not actively exploited in the wild, a Metasploit module exists, and there is no community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 4.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.0.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.0.0:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.0.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.0.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
20.70%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: Ruby on Rails Action View MIME Memory Exhaustion · Dec 4, 2013
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2070 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (20)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.4Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-rails-1:3.2.17-1.el6sam
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.4Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-railties-1:3.2.17-1.el6sam
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-1:3.2.8-5.1.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for RHEL-6Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-1:3.2.8-5.1.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.4Fixed in: katello-0:1.4.3.28-1.el6sam_splice
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.4Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-actionmailer-1:3.2.17-1.el6sam
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.4Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-1:3.2.17-6.el6sam
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.4Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-activemodel-1:3.2.17-1.el6sam
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.4Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-activerecord-1:3.2.17-5.el6sam
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.4Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-activeresource-1:3.2.17-1.el6sam
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.4Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-activesupport-1:3.2.17-2.el6sam
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.4Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-i18n-0:0.6.9-1.el6sam
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.4Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-mail-0:2.5.4-1.el6sam
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.4Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-rack-1:1.4.5-3.el6sam
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rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: actionpackFixed in: 3.2.16
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: actionpackFixed in: 4.0.2
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 6Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset ManagerFixed in: rubygem-actionpack
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: OpenShift Enterprise 1Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack

Vendor Advisories (2)

rubygemsGHSA-mpxf-gcw2-pw5qmedium

actionpack Improper Input Validation vulnerability

Oct 24, 2017
redhatCVE-2013-6414Moderate

rubygem-actionpack: Action View DoS

Dec 3, 2013

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00079.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00081.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00082.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00003.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-1794.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0008.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-1863.html
secunia.com / advisories/57836
groups.google.com / forum/message/raw
puppet.com / security/cve/cve-2013-6414
weblog.rubyonrails.org / 2013/12/3/Rails_3_2_16_and_4_0_2_have_been_released
PatchVendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-2888
getchef.com / blog/2014/04/09/enterprise-chef-11-1-3-release