CVE-2015-3224

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-284 Improper Access Control

Publication date:

26/07/2015

Last modified:

03/12/2016

Description

request.rb in Web Console before 2.1.3, as used with Ruby on Rails 3.x and 4.x, does not properly restrict the use of X-Forwarded-For headers in determining a client&#39;s IP address, which allows remote attackers to bypass the whitelisted_ips protection mechanism via a crafted request.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None