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CVE-2013-6417

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-6417 is a vulnerability in Ruby on Rails versions before 3.2.16 and 4.x before 4.0.2, stemming from an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-0155. It allows remote attackers to bypass database query restrictions and perform NULL checks or trigger missing WHERE clauses through crafted requests leveraging third-party or custom Rack middleware. With a CVSS score of 6.4, this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and can lead to partial confidentiality and integrity impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:beta3:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:beta4:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.4MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0237 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 23,725 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 (13)

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: CloudForms Management Engine 5.xFixed in: cfme-0:5.2.3.2-1.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.xFixed in: postgresql92-postgresql-0:9.2.7-1.1.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.xFixed in: prince-0:9.0r2-4.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.xFixed in: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-1:3.2.13-6.el6cf
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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 OpenStack Platform 4Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 6Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset ManagerFixed in: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: OpenShift Enterprise 1Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset ManagerFixed in: rubygem-actionpack

Vendor Advisories (2)

rubygemsGHSA-wpw7-wxjm-cw8rmedium

actionpack allows bypass of database-query restrictions

Oct 24, 2017
redhatCVE-2013-6417Important

rubygem-actionpack: unsafe query generation risk (incomplete fix for CVE-2013- 0155)

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-2014-0469.html
groups.google.com / forum/message/raw
puppet.com / security/cve/cve-2013-6417
weblog.rubyonrails.org / 2013/12/3/Rails_3_2_16_and_4_0_2_have_been_released
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-2888