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SCA: security update for resque (GHSA-r8xx-8vm8-x6wj)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 418613

Description

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

 - Resque (pronounced like "rescue") is a Redis-backed library for creating background jobs, placing those
 jobs on multiple queues, and processing them later. resque-web in resque versions before 2.1.0 are
 vulnerable to reflected XSS through the current_queue parameter in the path of the queues endpoint. This
 issue has been patched in version 2.1.0. (CVE-2023-50724)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r8xx-8vm8-x6wj

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 418613

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: 2.3

Percentile: 9.14

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-50724

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: 12/18/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/18/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-50724