GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems

GHSA-7rr7-rcjw-56vj Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in activestorage

MEDIUM Published 2018-12-05 Modified 2023-07-05 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2018-16477
Ecosystem
RubyGems
Packages
activestorage
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-200
Reviewed
2020-06-16

Affected packages

• RubyGems activestorage: >= 5.2.0, < 5.2.1.1 → fixed in 5.2.1.1

Description

A bypass vulnerability in Active Storage >= 5.2.0 for Google Cloud Storage and Disk services allow an attacker to modify the `content-disposition` and `content-type` parameters which can be used in with HTML files and have them executed inline. Additionally, if combined with other techniques such as cookie bombing and specially crafted AppCache manifests, an attacker can gain access to private signed URLs within a specific storage path. Vulnerable apps are those using either GCS or the Disk service in production. Other storage services such as S3 or Azure aren't affected.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2018-16477 A bypass vulnerability in Active Storage >= 5.2.0 for Google Cloud Storage and Disk services allow an attacker to modify the… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness

References