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SCA: security update for elastic-apm (GHSA-35j2-p8fh-x966)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 409302

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - A TLS certificate validation flaw was found in Elastic APM agent for Ruby versions before 2.9.0. When
 specifying a trusted server CA certificate via the 'server_ca_cert' setting, the Ruby agent would not
 properly verify the certificate returned by the APM server. This could result in a man in the middle style
 attack against the Ruby agent. (CVE-2019-7615)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-35j2-p8fh-x966

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 409302

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-7615

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/30/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-7615

cwe: CWE-295