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Access Restriction Bypass Affecting paperclip package, versions < 4.0.0

0.0
medium

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    Attack Complexity Low

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-PAPERCLIP-20144
  • published 30 Jan 2014
  • disclosed 30 Jan 2014
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 30 Jan 2014

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Overview

paperclip is an upload management for ActiveRecord. Affected versions of this gem are vulnerable to Restriction Bypass By Spoofing Content-Type Header.

Details

Paperclip Gem for Ruby contains a flaw that is due to the application failing to properly validate the file extension, instead only validating the Content-Type header during file uploads. This may allow a remote attacker to bypass restrictions on file types for uploaded files by spoofing the content-type.