Detections
Analytics

SCA: security update for actionpack (GHSA-35mm-cc6r-8fjp)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 409309

Description

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

 - In actionpack gem >= 6.0.0, a possible XSS vulnerability exists when an application is running in
 development mode allowing an attacker to send or embed (in another page) a specially crafted URL which can
 allow the attacker to execute JavaScript in the context of the local application. This vulnerability is in
 the Actionable Exceptions middleware. (CVE-2020-8264)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-35mm-cc6r-8fjp

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 409309

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: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8264

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/7/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/6/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-8264

cwe: CWE-79