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…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

49.1% · top 1.1% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-284 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-284 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

• RubyGemsweb-consoleGHSA-67j6-xv27-w6ww (opens in a new tab)

References (5)

• 75237 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• [rubyonrails-security] 20150616 [CVE-2015-3224] IP whitelist bypass in Web Console (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20150616 [CVE-2015-3224] IP whitelist bypass in Web Console (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• FEDORA-2015-10128 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• https://github.com/rails/web-console/blob/master/CHANGELOG.markdown (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisory GHSA-67j6-xv27-w6ww (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2015-3224](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2015-3224.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2015-3224)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 05:39 UTC.