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SCA: security update for rack-mini-profiler (GHSA-j5hj-fhc9-g24m)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 421817

Description

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

 - The rack-mini-profiler gem before 0.10.1 for Ruby allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information
 about allocated strings and objects by leveraging incorrect ordering of security checks. (CVE-2016-4442)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j5hj-fhc9-g24m

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 421817

Version: Revision 1.5

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: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-4442

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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: 6/10/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-4442

BID: 91139

cwe: CWE-200