SCA: security update for actionpack (GHSA-7wjx-3g7j-8584)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 412310

Description

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

- The actionpack ruby gem before 6.1.3.2, 6.0.3.7, 5.2.4.6, 5.2.6 suffers from a possible denial of service
vulnerability in the Token Authentication logic in Action Controller due to a too permissive regular
expression. Impacted code uses `authenticate_or_request_with_http_token` or `authenticate_with_http_token`
for request authentication. (CVE-2021-22904)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 412310

Version: Revision 1.5

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: 3

Percentile: 23.71

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-22904

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/5/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/5/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-22904

cwe: CWE-400

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