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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.3

CVE-2024-22049 json

httparty Multipart/Form-Data Request Tampering Vulnerability

published 2023-01-03 3 y ago modified 2026-11-08 25 h ago also EUVD-2023-0342 , GHSA-5pq7-52mg-hr42

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 70%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

httparty before 0.21.0 is vulnerable to an assumed-immutable web parameter vulnerability. A remote and unauthenticated attacker can provide a crafted filename parameter during multipart/form-data uploads which could result in attacker controlled filenames being written.

Patch / fix

  • rubygems httparty 0.21.0
  • jnunemaker httparty 0.21.0
  • ruby-httparty Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.21.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-22049

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-22049 updated cvss 6.5

httparty: multipart/form-data request vulnerable to tampering

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
18 mo ago

Exploit prediction

1.29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 70% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/jnunemaker/httparty/security/advisories/GHSA-5pq7-52mg-hr42 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • github.com https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5pq7-52mg-hr42 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • github.com https://github.com/jnunemaker/httparty/blob/4416141d37fd71bdba4f37589ec265f55aa446ce/lib/httparty/request/body.rb#L43 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
GitHub 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CNA 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
rubygems httparty
<0.21.0
0.21.0

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-472 External Control of Assumed-Immutable Web Parameter

References

Sources

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