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CVE-2013-6460

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-6460 describes a Denial of Service vulnerability in Nokogiri gem versions 1.5.x, affecting products like Debian and Red Hat. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) can be triggered by an unauthenticated attacker via user interaction, leading to an infinite loop when parsing specially crafted XML documents, resulting in high 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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 1.5.0, < 1.5.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:nokogiri:nokogiri:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 1.6.0, < 1.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:nokogiri:nokogiri:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.08%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0208 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 26,234 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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 (3)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: nokogiriFixed in: 1.5.11
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: nokogiriFixed in: 1.6.1

Vendor Advisories (2)

rubygemsGHSA-62qp-3fxm-9wxfmedium

Nokogiri vulnerable to DoS while parsing XML documents

May 5, 2022
redhatCVE-2013-6460Moderate

rubygem-nokogiri: DoS while parsing XML documents

Dec 15, 2013

References

access.redhat.com / security/cve/cve-2013-6460
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.suse.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/90058
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
security-tracker.debian.org / tracker/CVE-2013-6460
Third Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2013/12/27/2
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/64513
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry