4.3
MEDIUM
CVE-2015-3224
Ruby on Rails Web Console X-Forwarded-For Header Spoofing Vulnerability
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's IP address, which allows remote attackers to bypass the whitelisted_ips protection mechanism via a crafted request.

INFO

Published Date :

July 26, 2015, 10:59 p.m.

Last Modified :

Dec. 3, 2016, 3:08 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

2.9

Exploitability Score :

8.6
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2015-3224 has a 8 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2015-3224 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Rubyonrails web_console
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

CVE-2015-3224

Python

Updated: 3 years, 6 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Feb. 27, 2021, 7:47 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

essential templates for kenzer [DEPRECATED]

kenzer vulnerabilities kenzer-templates arpsyndicate

Python Shell Ruby

Updated: 1 month, 1 week ago
106 stars 32 fork 32 watcher
Born at : Sept. 18, 2020, 9:03 p.m. This repo has been linked 1653 different CVEs too.

None

Python

Updated: 3 weeks ago
16 stars 4 fork 4 watcher
Born at : Sept. 3, 2020, 10:31 a.m. This repo has been linked 107 different CVEs too.

Solutions to Metasploitable 3

Updated: 1 year, 2 months ago
2 stars 2 fork 2 watcher
Born at : June 13, 2019, 4:41 a.m. This repo has been linked 12 different CVEs too.

Ruby on Rails Web Console (v2) Whitelist Bypass Code Execution implementation in Python

security cve-2015-3224 poc

Python

Updated: 10 months, 1 week ago
6 stars 7 fork 7 watcher
Born at : May 3, 2018, 7:41 a.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

None

Ruby

Updated: 6 years, 1 month ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : March 25, 2018, 2:28 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

Modification of Metasploit module for RCE in Ruby-On-Rails Console CVE-2015-3224

cve exploit ruby rails console

Shell Ruby

Updated: 5 years, 11 months ago
2 stars 3 fork 3 watcher
Born at : Feb. 8, 2018, 11:24 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

Automation tool for software vulnerability testing

vulnerability-tests ruby penetration-test automation vagrantfile security security-tools cyber-range

Ruby HTML

Updated: 9 months, 3 weeks ago
3 stars 1 fork 1 watcher
Born at : Nov. 29, 2017, 11:42 a.m. This repo has been linked 6 different CVEs too.

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The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2015-3224 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2015-3224 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Dec. 03, 2016

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/160881.html [No Types Assigned]
    Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75237 [No Types Assigned]
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Jul. 27, 2015

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CPE Configuration Configuration 1 OR *cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:web_console:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (and previous)
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
    Changed Reference Type https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/lzmz9_ijUFw/HBMPi4zp5NAJ No Types Assigned https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/lzmz9_ijUFw/HBMPi4zp5NAJ Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/rails/web-console/blob/master/CHANGELOG.markdown No Types Assigned https://github.com/rails/web-console/blob/master/CHANGELOG.markdown Advisory
    Added CWE CWE-284
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Jul. 27, 2015

    Action Type Old Value New Value
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2015-3224 is associated with the following CWEs:

Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

92.50 }} -0.40%

score

0.99047

percentile

CVSS2 - Vulnerability Scoring System
Access Vector
Access Complexity
Authentication
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