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CVE-2013-1856

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-1856 is a vulnerability in the Active Support component of Ruby on Rails versions 3.0.x and 3.1.x (before 3.1.12) and 3.2.x (before 3.2.13), specifically when using JRuby. It allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files or cause a denial of service by exploiting improper XML parser restrictions through external DTDs or entity declarations. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.8, indicating a medium severity with a network attack vector, medium attack complexity, and potential for partial confidentiality and availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion, with only one Reddit mention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.1.0:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.1.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.1.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.1.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.8MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.05%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0205 is in the 65th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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 (2)

rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: activesupportFixed in: 3.1.12
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: activesupportFixed in: 3.2.13

Vendor Advisories (1)

rubygemsGHSA-9c2j-593q-3g82medium

activesupport Improper Input Validation vulnerability

Oct 24, 2017

References

lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2013/Jun/msg00000.html
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2013/Oct/msg00006.html
groups.google.com / group/rubyonrails-security/msg/6c2482d4ed1545e6
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