CVE-2025-24293

State
Published
Severity
9.2 Critical
Published
Jan 30, 2026
Updated
Jul 15, 2026
Reserved
Jan 17, 2025

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Description

# 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!

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.09.2 CriticalCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:Nhackerone
3.18.1 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hredhat-SADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
  • CWE-77 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')
  • CWE-88 Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
activestorageRails
  • 5.2 to before 5.*Affected
  • 7.0 to before 7.1.5.2Affected
  • 8.0 to before 7.0.2.1Affected

References

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