CVE-2018-16477

published 2018-11-30

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…

Priority P4 33 medium 6.5 CVSS 3.0

AV N AC L PR N UI R S U C N I H A N

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.

Affected

8 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	rails	< rails 2:5.2.2+dfsg-1 (bookworm)	rails 2:5.2.2+dfsg-1 (bookworm)
https	github.com_rails_rails	—	—
rails	activestorage	>= 5.2.0 < 5.2.1.1	5.2.1.1
rubyonrails	rails	>= 0 < 2:5.2.2+dfsg-1	2:5.2.2+dfsg-1
rubyonrails	rails	>= 0 < 2:5.2.2+dfsg-1	2:5.2.2+dfsg-1
rubyonrails	rails	>= 0 < 2:5.2.2+dfsg-1	2:5.2.2+dfsg-1
rubyonrails	rails	>= 0 < 2:5.2.2+dfsg-1	2:5.2.2+dfsg-1
rubyonrails	rails	>= 5.2.0 < 5.2.1.1	5.2.1.1

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 6.5 MEDIUM CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

nvd v2.0 4.3 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

osv 6.5 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 6.5 MEDIUM

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