Denial of service in ruby-openid

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.

Basic information

Type
reviewed
Severity
medium
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Published (advisory)
2017-10-24 18:33:37 UTC
Updated
2023-11-05 05:06:29 UTC
GitHub reviewed
2020-06-16 21:18:51 UTC
NVD published
2013-12-12

EPSS Score

Score Percentile
0.53% 66.51%

CVSS Scores

No CVSS scores in this advisory.

Identifiers

Affected packages (1)

Vulnerable version ranges and first patched releases as published by GitHub.

Ecosystem Package Vulnerable range First patched Vulnerable functions
rubygems ruby-openid < 2.2.2 2.2.2

References

cvelogic Threat Intelligence