Upstream information
Description
The ruby-openid gem before 2.2.2 for Ruby allows remote OpenID providers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via (1) a large XRDS document or (2) an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.SUSE information
Overall state of this security issue: Resolved
This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.
| CVSS detail | National Vulnerability Database | 
|---|---|
| Base Score | 4.3 | 
| Vector | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P | 
| Access Vector | Network | 
| Access Complexity | Medium | 
| Authentication | None | 
| Confidentiality Impact | None | 
| Integrity Impact | None | 
| Availability Impact | Partial | 
SUSE Security Advisories:
- SUSE-SU-2013:1036-1, published Mon Jun 17 15:04:10 MDT 2013
List of released packages
| Product(s) | Fixed package version(s) | References | 
|---|---|---|
| SUSE Studio Onsite 1.3 | 
 | Patchnames: slestso13-susestudio | 
| SUSE Studio Onsite Runner 1.2 | 
 | Patchnames: slestso12-rubygem-ruby-openid | 
SUSE Timeline for this CVE
CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 09:02:55 2013CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:18:54 2025
