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Ruby on Rails Improper Input Validation Vulnerability - CVE-2013-0156 - Vulnerability Database
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Ruby on Rails Improper Input Validation Vulnerability - CVE-2013-0156

High
Reference: CVE-2013-0156
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-0156
Title: Ruby on Rails Improper Input Validation Vulnerability
Overview:

active_support/core_ext/hash/conversions.rb in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.15 3.0.x before 3.0.19 3.1.x before 3.1.10 and 3.2.x before 3.2.11 does not properly restrict casts of string values which allows remote attackers to conduct object-injection attacks and execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) involving nested XML entity references by leveraging Action Pack support for (1) YAML type conversion or (2) Symbol type conversion.