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| Vulnerability ID | VCID-ypnr-rewr-ckhx |
| Aliases |
GHSA-phmw-pv3f-vvx7
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| Summary | Moderate severity vulnerability that affects paperclip Withdrawn, accidental duplicate publish. The thoughtbot paperclip gem before 4.2.2 for Ruby does not consider the content-type value during media-type validation, which allows remote attackers to upload HTML documents and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a spoofed value, as demonstrated by image/jpeg. |
| Status | Published |
| Exploitability | 0.5 |
| Weighted Severity | 6.2 |
| Risk | 3.1 |
| Affected and Fixed Packages | Package Details |
| There are no known CWE. |
| System | Score | Found at |
|---|---|---|
| generic_textual | MODERATE | https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-phmw-pv3f-vvx7 |
| generic_textual | MODERATE | https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip |
| generic_textual | MODERATE | https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2963 |
| Reference id | Reference type | URL |
|---|---|---|
| https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-phmw-pv3f-vvx7 | ||
| https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip | ||
| https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2963 |
No EPSS data available for this vulnerability.
| Date | Actor | Action | Source | VulnerableCode Version |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-04T17:39:30.878764+00:00 | GithubOSV Importer | Import | https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2018/08/GHSA-phmw-pv3f-vvx7/GHSA-phmw-pv3f-vvx7.json | 38.6.0 |