Widely used Rails Active Storage; potential remote code execution across many apps.
CVE-2025-24293
Active Storage may allow command injection via unsafe image transformation params.
Is CVE-2025-24293 being exploited?
Not confirmed. CVE-2025-24293 does not appear in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, which records only exploitation that has been observed and reported publicly. That is evidence of absence of a report, not evidence the flaw is unattacked. EPSS currently estimates a 5.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.
How severe is CVE-2025-24293?
CVE-2025-24293 is rated Critical with a CVSS score of 9.2. Severity describes how bad exploitation would be, not how likely it is: pair it with exploitation evidence before deciding what to patch first.
Is there a patch for CVE-2025-24293?
Yes. A fix has been recorded for CVE-2025-24293. The vendor advisory is the authority on the exact fixed version — apply it from there rather than from a summary.
What does CVE-2025-24293 affect?
CVE-2025-24293 affects Ruby on Rails Active Storage with image_processing + mini_magick. Confirm the exact affected versions against the vendor advisory before deciding you are exposed.
What should I do about CVE-2025-24293?
Upgrade affected gems; validate inputs; enforce security policy.
Exploitation status reflects CISA's KEV catalog as we last synced it. Check the catalog directly.
Remote command execution via untrusted image_variant params when using image_processing/mini_magick.
Immediate action required
- affected>= 5.2 and < 5.*
- affected>= 7.0 and < 7.1.5.2
- affected>= 8.0 and < 7.0.2.1
As published in the CVE Program record. A version outside these ranges is not a statement that it is unaffected — vendors sometimes understate a range, and distribution-backported builds carry upstream numbers that do not reflect what was patched into them.