CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-2963
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-07-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
The thoughtbot paperclip gem before 4.2.2 for Ruby does not consider the content-type value during media-type validation, which allows remote attackers to upload HTML documents and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a spoofed value, as demonstrated by image/jpeg.
Affected configurations
• thoughtbot paperclip (<= 4.2.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN83881261/index.html Vendor Advisory
- http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2015-000088 Vendor Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/19/3 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75304 www.securityfocus.com
- https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip/commit/9aee4112f36058cd28d5fe4a006d6981bd1eda57 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://robots.thoughtbot.com/paperclip-security-release Vendor Advisory
- http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN83881261/index.html Vendor Advisory
- http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2015-000088 Vendor Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/19/3 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75304 www.securityfocus.com
- https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip/commit/9aee4112f36058cd28d5fe4a006d6981bd1eda57 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://robots.thoughtbot.com/paperclip-security-release Vendor Advisory