# CVE-2013-1812: 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

- Also known as: GHSA-6C8P-QPHV-668V
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.2.2
- Published: 2013-12-12 · Updated: 2024-08-06

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported
- ruby-openid (RubyGems): fixed in 2.2.2

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, ruby-openid, upgrade to a fixed version (2.2.2) per the references below.
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## References

- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=918134
- https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/120361.html
- https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/pull/43
- https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/commit/a3693cef06049563f5b4e4824f4d3211288508ed
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/120204.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/03/8

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