Information disclosure in Rubyonrails Rails

CVE-2018-16477

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.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.013 (67.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

  • Rubyonrails Rails
  • N/a Https://github.com/rails/rails — versions 5.2.0 and later and before 5.2.1.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-16477?
CVE-2018-16477 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Rubyonrails Rails, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-11-30.
How severe is CVE-2018-16477?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.