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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-33564

An argument injection vulnerability in the Dragonfly gem before 1.4.0 for Ruby allows remote attackers to read and write to arbitrary files via a crafted URL when the verify_url option is disabled. This may lead to code execution. The problem occurs because the generate and process features mishandle use of the ImageMagick convert utility.

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31 Oct 2026, 11:48 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2021-33564

core-osv · Original source

Published 29 May 2021, 14:15 UTC

An argument injection vulnerability in the Dragonfly gem before 1.4.0 for Ruby allows remote attackers to read and write to arbitrary files via a crafted URL when the verify_url option is disabled. This may lead to code execution. The problem occurs because the generate and process features mishandle use of the ImageMagick convert utility.

osv:CVE-2021-33564
Complete source record
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