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.
Published: 2015-07-10
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-0177 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-6jvm-3j5h-79f6 paperclip Cross-site Scripting vulnerability
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Thoughtbot Paperclip
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: jpcert

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T05:32:20.697Z

Reserved: 2015-04-07T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-2963

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Status : Modified

Published: 2015-07-10T17:59:00.093

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2015-2963

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