What is CVE-2015-2784?

CVE-2015-2784 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Papercrop Project, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2020-01-21.

How severe is CVE-2015-2784?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Improper input validation in Papercrop Project

CVE-2015-2784

The papercrop gem before 0.3.0 for Ruby on Rails does not properly handle crop input.

Vulnerability class: Drupalgeddon 2 (CVE-2018-7600)

Published 2020-01-21 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.018 (77.4th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 77th percentile — 77.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.018 · newest: 0.018 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Papercrop Project

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

References

github.com/rsantamaria/papercrop/commit/b4ecd95debaf0a8712bd1d34def83f41fc6b3579 (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/rsantamaria/papercrop/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md (Third Party Advisory, Release Notes)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-2784?: CVE-2015-2784 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Papercrop Project, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2020-01-21.
How severe is CVE-2015-2784?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.