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Vulnerability record · CVE-2013-0277 · published 13 February 2013

CVE-2013-0277: Rubyonrails rails vulnerability

Rubyonrails · Rails

ActiveRecord in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.17 and 3.x before 3.1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code via crafted serialized attributes that cause the +serialize+ helper to deserialize arbitrary YAML.

10.0 CVSS 2.0 High EPSS 7.5% · top 5.7%
10.0CVSS 2.0 base score
7.5%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
2Affected product versions listed by NVD
22References
16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

ActiveRecord in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.17 and 3.x before 3.1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code via crafted serialized attributes that cause the +serialize+ helper to deserialize arbitrary YAML.

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

2 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Jun/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00048.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/52112
http://securitytracker.com/id?1028109
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5784
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/2/11/SEC-ANN-Rails-3-2-12-3-1-11-and-2-3-17-have-been-released/
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2620
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/11/6 Patch
http://www.osvdb.org/90073
https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/302ec7ce90f13837?dmode=source&output=gplain
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2013-0277
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Jun/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00048.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/52112
http://securitytracker.com/id?1028109
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5784
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/2/11/SEC-ANN-Rails-3-2-12-3-1-11-and-2-3-17-have-been-released/
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2620
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/11/6 Patch
http://www.osvdb.org/90073
https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/302ec7ce90f13837?dmode=source&output=gplain
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2013-0277

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2013-0277), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.