{"id":"CVE-2013-0175","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2013-0175","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:44:20.565Z","title":"multi_xml gem 0.5.2 for Ruby, as used in Grape before 0.2.6 and possibly other products, does not properly restrict casts of string values, which allows remote attackers to conduct object-injection attacks and execute arbitrary code, or cause a denial…","description":"multi_xml gem 0.5.2 for Ruby, as used in Grape before 0.2.6 and possibly other products, does not properly restrict casts of string values, which allows remote attackers to conduct object-injection attacks and execute arbitrary code, or cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) involving nested XML entity references, by leveraging support for (1) YAML type conversion or (2) Symbol type conversion, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2013-0156.","published":"2013-04-25T23:55:01.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:48:55.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"secalert@redhat.com","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"},"cwe":["CWE-20"],"affected":["erik michaels-ober/multi xml","grape project/grape"],"epss":{"score":0.03726,"percentile":0.8973,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.73%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/11/9","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://gist.github.com/nate/d7f6d9f4925f413621aa","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/sferik/multi_xml/pull/34","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#%21topic/ruby-grape/fthDkMgIOa0","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5040457","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/11/9","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://gist.github.com/nate/d7f6d9f4925f413621aa","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/sferik/multi_xml/pull/34","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#%21topic/ruby-grape/fthDkMgIOa0","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5040457","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-0175","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}