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CVE-2015-2784

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-2784 is a critical vulnerability affecting the papercrop gem before version 0.3.0 for Ruby on Rails, stemming from improper handling of crop input. With a CVSS score of 9.8, it presents a high-severity risk, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to achieve full compromise (confidentiality, integrity, and availability) with low attack complexity over the network. Despite its critical severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:papercrop_project:papercrop:*:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.78%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0178 is in the 64th percentile among its peer group of 36,833 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: papercropFixed in: 0.3.0

Vendor Advisories (1)

rubygemsGHSA-m44r-gv6q-9j9rcritical

papercrop does not properly handle crop input

May 24, 2022

References

github.com / rsantamaria/papercrop/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
Release NotesThird Party Advisory
github.com / rsantamaria/papercrop/commit/b4ecd95debaf0a8712bd1d34def83f41fc6b3579
PatchThird Party Advisory