CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-3224
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-07-26
- 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-284
Description
request.rb in Web Console before 2.1.3, as used with Ruby on Rails 3.x and 4.x, does not properly restrict the use of X-Forwarded-For headers in determining a client's IP address, which allows remote attackers to bypass the whitelisted_ips protection mechanism via a crafted request.
Affected configurations
• rubyonrails web console (<= 2.1.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/160881.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/16/18 openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75237 www.securityfocus.com
- https://github.com/rails/web-console/blob/master/CHANGELOG.markdown Vendor Advisory
- https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/lzmz9_ijUFw/HBMPi4zp5NAJ Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/160881.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/16/18 openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75237 www.securityfocus.com
- https://github.com/rails/web-console/blob/master/CHANGELOG.markdown Vendor Advisory
- https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/lzmz9_ijUFw/HBMPi4zp5NAJ Vendor Advisory