CVE-2025-24293
HighCVSS 8.1Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
High risk82th percentile - higher than 82% of all known CVEs
Summary
A vulnerability in Active Storage allows bypassing default security restrictions for image transformation methods, potentially leading to command injection when user-supplied input is accepted as transformation methods or parameters. The issue affects applications using Active Storage with the image_processing gem and mini_magick as the image processor.
Risk Assessment
The organization is at risk of remote code execution (command injection) through manipulation of image transformation methods, which could lead to server compromise or data exfiltration.
Recommendation
Immediately upgrade Active Storage to a patched version or apply the workaround by strictly validating user-supplied input and deploying a strong ImageMagick security policy.
Other vulnerabilities in Active Storage
See all- CVE-2026-33658Medium
Active Storage in Rails applications allows users to attach cloud and local files. Prior to versions 8.1.2.1, 8.0.4.1, and 7.2.3.1, the proxy controller does not limit the number of byte ranges in an HTTP Range header, so a request with thousands of small ranges causes disproportionate CPU usage and may lead to a DoS vulnerability.
- CVE-2026-33173Medium
Active Storage in Rails applications prior to versions 8.1.2.1, 8.0.4.1, and 7.2.3.1 allows DirectUploadsController to accept arbitrary metadata from the client and persist it on the blob. Because internal flags like identified and analyzed are stored in the same metadata hash, a direct-upload client can set them to skip MIME detection and analysis, allowing upload of arbitrary content while claiming a safe content_type and bypassing validations.
- CVE-2026-33202Critical
In Active Storage (Ruby on Rails) prior to versions 8.1.2.1, 8.0.4.1 and 7.2.3.1, DiskService#delete_prefixed passes blob keys directly to Dir.glob without escaping glob metacharacters. If a blob key contains attacker-controlled input or glob metacharacters, unintended files may be deleted from the storage directory.
- CVE-2026-33195Critical
A path traversal vulnerability in Active Storage's `DiskService#path_for` allows arbitrary file access if blob keys contain `../` sequences. Attackers can read, write, or delete files outside the storage root.
Original NVD description (English source)
# Active Storage allowed transformation methods potentially unsafe Active Storage attempts to prevent the use of potentially unsafe image transformation methods and parameters by default. The default allowed list contains three methods allow for the circumvention of the safe defaults which enables potential command injection vulnerabilities in cases where arbitrary user supplied input is accepted as valid transformation methods or parameters. Impact ------ This vulnerability impacts applications that use Active Storage with the image_processing processing gem in addition to mini_magick as the image processor. Vulnerable code will look something similar to this: ``` <%= image_tag blob.variant(params[:t] => params[:v]) %> ``` Where the transformation method or its arguments are untrusted arbitrary input. All users running an affected release should either upgrade or use one of the workarounds immediately. Workarounds ----------- Consuming user supplied input for image transformation methods or their parameters is unsupported behavior and should be considered dangerous. Strict validation of user supplied methods and parameters should be performed as well as having a strong [ImageMagick security policy](https://imagemagick.org/script/security-policy.php) deployed. Credits ------- Thank you [lio346](https://hackerone.com/lio346) for reporting this!
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