National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2013-0333

Overview

lib/active_support/json/backends/yaml.rb in Ruby on Rails 2.3.x before 2.3.16 and 3.0.x before 3.0.20 does not properly convert JSON data to YAML data for processing by a YAML parser, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, conduct SQL injection attacks, or bypass authentication via crafted data that triggers unsafe decoding, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-0156.

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#628463

Name: VU#628463

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/628463

External Source: MLIST

Name: [rubyonrails-security] 20130129 Vulnerability in JSON Parser in Ruby on Rails 3.0 and 2.3

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/52179af76915e518?dmode=source&output=gplain

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-2613

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2613

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/1/28/Rails-3-0-20-and-2-3-16-have-been-released/

Hyperlink:http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/1/28/Rails-3-0-20-and-2-3-16-have-been-released/

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2013:0203

Hyperlink:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0203.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2013:0202

Hyperlink:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0202.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2013:0201

Hyperlink:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0201.html

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2013-03-14-1

Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Mar/msg00002.html