The httparty gem 0.9.0 and earlier for Ruby does not properly restrict casts of string values, which might allow remote attackers to…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

4.4% · top 8.6% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-264 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-264 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

• RubyGemshttpartyGHSA-mgx3-27hr-mfgp (opens in a new tab)

References (4)

• https://github.com/jnunemaker/httparty/commit/53a812426dd32108d6cba4272b493aa03bc8c031 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://support.cloud.engineyard.com/entries/22915701-january-14-2013-security-vulnerabilities-httparty-extlib-crack-nori-update-these-gems-immediately (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917229 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 58260 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisory GHSA-mgx3-27hr-mfgp (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2013-1801](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2013-1801.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2013-1801)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 15:13 UTC.