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CVE-2013-1854

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-1854 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Active Record component of Ruby on Rails versions 2.3.x, 3.1.x, and 3.2.x. This flaw allows remote attackers to crash an application by sending crafted input to a 'where' method, which improperly converts hash keys to symbols. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (medium), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to a partial denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant media coverage, though it has received some community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.3.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.3.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.3.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.44%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0344 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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 (18)

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: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: ruby193-rubygem-activerecord-1:3.2.8-6.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: activerecordFixed in: 2.3.18
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: activerecordFixed in: 3.1.12
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: activerecordFixed in: 3.2.13
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 6Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-activerecord
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset ManagerFixed in: rubygem-activerecord

Vendor Advisories (2)

rubygemsGHSA-3crr-9vmg-864vmedium

Active Record Improper Input Validation

Oct 24, 2017
redhatCVE-2013-1854Moderate

rubygem-activerecord: attribute_dos Symbol DoS vulnerability

Mar 18, 2013

References

lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2013/Jun/msg00000.html
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2013/Oct/msg00006.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00070.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00071.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00075.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00078.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00079.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0699.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-1863.html
groups.google.com / group/ruby-security-ann/msg/34e0d780b04308de
support.apple.com / kb/HT5784
weblog.rubyonrails.org / 2013/3/18/SEC-ANN-Rails-3-2-13-3-1-12-and-2-3-18-have-been-released