Upstream information

CVE-2013-1856 at MITRE

Description

The ActiveSupport::XmlMini_JDOM backend in lib/active_support/xml_mini/jdom.rb in the Active Support component in Ruby on Rails 3.0.x and 3.1.x before 3.1.12 and 3.2.x before 3.2.13, when JRuby is used, does not properly restrict the capabilities of the XML parser, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files or cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via vectors involving (1) an external DTD or (2) an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5.8
Vector AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 809939 [RESOLVED / UPSTREAM]

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Status of this issue by product and package

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Product(s) Source package State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 rubygem-activesupport-3_2 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 rubygem-activesupport-3_2 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 rubygem-activesupport-3_2 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 rubygem-activesupport-3_2 Analysis


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 13:30:04 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Oct 13 18:59:39 2023