GHSA-4936-rj25-6wm6High

nori contains Improper Input Validation

Published
October 24, 2017
Last Modified
August 25, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

The nori gem 2.0.x before 2.0.2, 1.1.x before 1.1.4, and 1.0.x before 1.0.3 for Ruby 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, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2013-0156.

🎯 Affected products3

  • rubygems/nori:>= 2.0.0, < 2.0.2
  • rubygems/nori:>= 1.1.0, < 1.1.4
  • rubygems/nori:>= 1.0.0, < 1.0.3

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