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SCA: security update for paperclip (GHSA-6jvm-3j5h-79f6)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423369

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2015-2963)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6jvm-3j5h-79f6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 423369

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-2963

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/24/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/18/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-2963

BID: 75304

cwe: CWE-79