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SCA: security update for activerecord (GHSA-hqf9-rc9j-5fmj)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 421802

Description

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

 - SQL injection vulnerability in activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql/cast.rb in
 Active Record in Ruby on Rails 4.0.x before 4.0.3, and 4.1.0.beta1, when PostgreSQL is used, allows remote
 attackers to execute "add data" SQL commands via vectors involving \ (backslash) characters that are not
 properly handled in operations on array columns. (CVE-2014-0080)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hqf9-rc9j-5fmj

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 421802

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.8

Percentile: 22.22

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-0080

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: 10/24/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/20/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0080

BID: 65648, 66518

cwe: CWE-89