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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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