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SCA: security update for sidekiq (GHSA-q655-3pj8-9fxq)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 417917

Description

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

 - Sidekiq is simple, efficient background processing for Ruby. Sidekiq is reflected XSS vulnerability. The
 value of substr parameter is reflected in the response without any encoding, allowing an attacker to
 inject Javascript code into the response of the application. An attacker could exploit it to target users
 of the Sidekiq Web UI. Moreover, if other applications are deployed on the same domain or website as
 Sidekiq, users of those applications could also be affected, leading to a broader scope of compromise.
 Potentially compromising their accounts, forcing the users to perform sensitive actions, stealing
 sensitive data, performing CORS attacks, defacement of the web application, etc. This issue has been
 patched in version 7.2.4. (CVE-2024-32887)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q655-3pj8-9fxq

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 417917

Version: Revision 1.7

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: 2.8

Percentile: 22.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-32887

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/26/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/26/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-32887

IAVA: 2024-A-0265

cwe: CWE-79