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SCA: security update for activesupport (GHSA-j6gc-792m-qgm2)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 416188

Description

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

 - A regular expression based DoS vulnerability in Active Support <6.1.7.1 and <7.0.4.1. A specially crafted
 string passed to the underscore method can cause the regular expression engine to enter a state of
 catastrophic backtracking. This can cause the process to use large amounts of CPU and memory, leading to a
 possible DoS vulnerability. (CVE-2023-22796)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j6gc-792m-qgm2

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 416188

Version: Revision 1.6

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: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-22796

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:N/A:H

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/18/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/18/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-22796