CVE-2026-44587CWE-184CWE-625CWE-79

CarrierWave has a denylisted_content_type bypass via Unescaped Regex Metacharacters

Medium · published June 16, 2026

CVSS v3.1
4.7
EPSS
0%
Percentile
26.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

CarrierWave is a framework to upload files from Ruby applications. In versions prior to 2.2.7 and 3.1.3, the content_type_denylist check fails to escape regex metacharacters in string entries, causing the denylist to silently not match the content types it is intended to block. In lib/carrierwave/uploader/content_type_denylist.rb:57, denylist entries are interpolated directly into a regex without Regexp.quote or anchoring, so an entry such as image/svg+xml becomes the pattern /image\/svg+xml/, in which + is treated as a quantifier rather than a literal character and therefore never matches the real MIME type image/svg+xml. This is inconsistent with the allowlist implementation, which correctly applies both Regexp.quote and a \A anchor. Other content types containing regex metacharacters, such as application/xhtml+xml, are affected as well. As a result, any application that relies on content_type_denylist to block image/svg+xml, most commonly to prevent stored XSS, is silently unprotected. An attacker can upload an SVG file containing arbitrary JavaScript; if the application serves that SVG inline from its own origin, the script executes in the victim's browser, resulting in stored XSS. This issue has been fixed in versions 2.2.7 and 3.1.3.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.7 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00338 · 26.0th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-184 · Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs; CWE-625 · Permissive Regular Expression; CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Published
2026-06-16T23:10Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 JUN 23:10Z
    CarrierWave has a denylisted_content_type bypass via Unescaped Regex Metacharacters
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