CVE-2015-2963

MediumCVSS 4.3/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 4.3/10AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-79

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN83881261/index.htmlVendor Advisory
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2015-000088Vendor Advisory
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/19/3Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75304
https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip/commit/9aee4112f36058cd28d5fe4a006d6981bd1eda57Exploit, Vendor Advisory
https://robots.thoughtbot.com/paperclip-security-releaseVendor Advisory
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN83881261/index.htmlVendor Advisory
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2015-000088Vendor Advisory
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/19/3Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75304
https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip/commit/9aee4112f36058cd28d5fe4a006d6981bd1eda57Exploit, Vendor Advisory
https://robots.thoughtbot.com/paperclip-security-releaseVendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Jul 10, 2015
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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