VDB-63967 · CVE-2013-1801 · BID 58260

John Nunemaker httparty up to 0.2.0 access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in John Nunemaker httparty up to 0.2.0. This affects an unknown part. This manipulation causes access control. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2013-1801. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in John Nunemaker httparty up to 0.2.0 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-264. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The httparty gem 0.9.0 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 YAML type conversion, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2013-0156.

The weakness was disclosed 04/09/2013 by Charlie Somerville (ryan) (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2013-1801 since 02/19/2013. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at SecurityFocus (BID 58260†). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Recommended: no mitigation known
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Patch: github.com

Timelineinfo

01/14/2013 🔍
02/19/2013 +36 days 🔍
04/09/2013 +49 days 🔍
04/09/2013 +0 days 🔍
03/24/2015 +714 days 🔍
01/07/2026 +3942 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: 53a812426dd32108d6cba4272b493aa03bc8c031
Researcher: Charlie Somerville (ryan)
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2013-1801 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2013-1801
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-63967
SecurityFocus: 58260 - Ruby HTTParty CVE-2013-1801 Parameter Parsing Vulnerability

Entryinfo

Created: 03/24/2015 15:54
Updated: 01/07/2026 22:02
Changes: 03/24/2015 15:54 (46), 02/25/2019 14:54 (6), 01/02/2022 08:37 (4), 01/07/2026 22:02 (21)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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