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CVE-2018-16477

Published: Nov 30, 2018Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-200
NVD MITRE
6.5CVSSMEDIUM
EPSS Score
1.3%
Top 33.1%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

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. This vulnerability has been fixed in version 5.2.1.1.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:RS:UC:NI:HA:N
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:RUser Interaction
Required
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:HIntegrity
High
A:NAvailability
None
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Weaknesses

CWE-200NVD-CWE-noinfo

Affected Products

railsrubyonrailsOSS Libraries
activestorageRubyGemsOSS Libraries
https://github.com/rails/railsn/a
rubyonrailsoss-projectUSOSS Librariesaka rails, ruby on rails, rubyonrails.org
rubygemspackage-ecosystemOSS Libraries

Attack Graph

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available
Workaround Available

MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique
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References

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-security/3KQRnXDIuLg/mByx5KkqBAAJ
groups.google.com
https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2018/11/27/Rails-4-2-5-0-5-1-5-2-have-been-released/
weblog.rubyonrails.org
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16477
nvd.nist.gov
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Timeline

Published
Nov 30, 2018
Last Updated
Nov 21, 2024

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