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Status published
Medium
CVE-2015-2963
The thoughtbot paperclip gem before 4.2.2 for Ruby does not...
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75304
- https://robots.thoughtbot.com/paperclip-security-release
- https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip/commit/9aee4112f36058cd28d5fe4a006d6981bd1eda57
- http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN83881261/index.html
- http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2015-000088
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/19/3
Affected Vendor
thoughtbot
View all reports →Affected Software
paperclip
Vulnerable Versions:
0
Timeline
Official Publish:
July 10th, 2015
Last Modified:
August 6th, 2024
Added to House:
July 19th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.