CVE-2018-16477

Published: Nov 30, 2018Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-200

6.5MEDIUM

NVD MITRE

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.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

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-200 NVD-CWE-noinfo

Affected Products

rubyonrails

oss-project·USaka rubyonrails.org, rails, ruby on rails

package-ecosystem

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

Workaround Available

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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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