{"id":"CVE-2013-6414","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2013-6414","generatedAt":"2026-11-05T07:17:11.892Z","title":"actionpack/lib/action_view/lookup_context.rb in Action View in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.2.16 and 4.x before 4.0.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a header containing an invalid MIME type that leads to…","description":"actionpack/lib/action_view/lookup_context.rb in Action View in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.2.16 and 4.x before 4.0.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a header containing an invalid MIME type that leads to excessive caching.","published":"2013-12-07T00:55:04.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:00:27.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"secalert@redhat.com","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"},"cwe":["CWE-20"],"affected":["rubyonrails/rails","rubyonrails/ruby on rails"],"epss":{"score":0.207,"percentile":0.97539,"date":"2026-11-04","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 20.7%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00079.html","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00081.html","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00082.html","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00003.html","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1794.html","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0008.html","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1863.html","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/57836","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/12/3/Rails_3_2_16_and_4_0_2_have_been_released/","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2888","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.getchef.com/blog/2014/04/09/enterprise-chef-11-1-3-release/","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=ruby-security-ann/A-ebV4WxzKg/KNPTbX8XAQUJ","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2013-6414","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00079.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00081.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00082.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00003.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1794.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0008.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1863.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/57836","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/12/3/Rails_3_2_16_and_4_0_2_have_been_released/","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2888","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.getchef.com/blog/2014/04/09/enterprise-chef-11-1-3-release/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=ruby-security-ann/A-ebV4WxzKg/KNPTbX8XAQUJ","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2013-6414","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6414","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."}