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SCA: security update for stringio (GHSA-v5h6-c2hv-hv3r)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 419090

Description

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

 - A buffer-overread issue was discovered in StringIO 3.0.1, as distributed in Ruby 3.0.x through 3.0.6 and
 3.1.x through 3.1.4. The ungetbyte and ungetc methods on a StringIO can read past the end of a string, and
 a subsequent call to StringIO.gets may return the memory value. 3.0.3 is the main fixed version; however,
 for Ruby 3.0 users, a fixed version is stringio 3.0.1.1, and for Ruby 3.1 users, a fixed version is
 stringio 3.0.1.2. (CVE-2024-27280)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v5h6-c2hv-hv3r

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 419090

Version: Revision 1.19

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.83

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-27280

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/25/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/25/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-27280