{"id":"CVE-2013-1802","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2013-1802","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T18:47:34.599Z","title":"The extlib gem 0.9.15 and earlier for Ruby does not properly restrict casts of string values, which might allow remote attackers to conduct object-injection attacks and execute arbitrary code, or cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) by…","description":"The extlib gem 0.9.15 and earlier for Ruby does not properly restrict casts of string values, which might allow remote attackers to conduct object-injection attacks and execute arbitrary code, or cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) by leveraging Action Pack support for (1) YAML type conversion or (2) Symbol type conversion, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2013-0156.","published":"2013-04-09T20:55:02.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:52:09.000Z","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-264"],"affected":["dan kubb/extlib"],"epss":{"score":0.03415,"percentile":0.88804,"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 (3.42%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00002.html","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917233","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/datamapper/extlib/compare/b4f98174ec35ac96f76a08d5624fad05d22879b5...4540e7102b803624cc2eade4bb8aaaa934fc31c5","tags":["Exploit","Patch"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://support.cloud.engineyard.com/entries/22915701-january-14-2013-security-vulnerabilities-httparty-extlib-crack-nori-update-these-gems-immediately","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00002.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917233","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/datamapper/extlib/compare/b4f98174ec35ac96f76a08d5624fad05d22879b5...4540e7102b803624cc2eade4bb8aaaa934fc31c5","tags":["Exploit","Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://support.cloud.engineyard.com/entries/22915701-january-14-2013-security-vulnerabilities-httparty-extlib-crack-nori-update-these-gems-immediately","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1802","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."}