SCA: security update for actionview (GHSA-xp5h-f8jf-rc8q)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 420595

Description

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

- There is a potential DOM based cross-site scripting issue in rails-ujs which leverages the Clipboard API
to target HTML elements that are assigned the contenteditable attribute. This has the potential to occur
when pasting malicious HTML content from the clipboard that includes a data-method, data-remote or data-
disable-with attribute. (CVE-2023-23913)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xp5h-f8jf-rc8q

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 420595

Version: Revision 1.8

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: 22.92

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-23913

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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: 6/9/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/9/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-23913

cwe: CWE-79