CVE-2013-1801 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58260 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917229 https://github.com/jnunemaker/httparty/commit/53a812426dd32108d6cba4272b493aa03bc8c031 https://support.cloud.engineyard.com/entries/22915701-january-14-2013-security-vulnerabilities-httparty-extlib-crack-nori-update-these-gems-immediately