CVE-2015-3224

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 44.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-07-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-284

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.

Affected products

rubyonrails Web Console: through 2.1.2

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/160881.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/16/18
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75237
https://github.com/rails/web-console/blob/master/CHANGELOG.markdown
https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/lzmz9_ijUFw/HBMPi4zp5NAJ
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/160881.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/16/18
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75237
https://github.com/rails/web-console/blob/master/CHANGELOG.markdown
https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/lzmz9_ijUFw/HBMPi4zp5NAJ

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