SCA: security update for webrick (GHSA-gwfg-cqmg-cf8f)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 415345

Description

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

- An issue was discovered in Ruby through 2.5.8, 2.6.x through 2.6.6, and 2.7.x through 2.7.1. WEBrick, a
simple HTTP server bundled with Ruby, had not checked the transfer-encoding header value rigorously. An
attacker may potentially exploit this issue to bypass a reverse proxy (which also has a poor header
check), which may lead to an HTTP Request Smuggling attack. (CVE-2020-25613)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gwfg-cqmg-cf8f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 415345

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: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-25613

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/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: 10/6/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-25613

cwe: CWE-444