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SCA: security update for actionpack (GHSA-8fqx-7pv4-3jwm)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 421865

Description

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

 - Ruby on Rails 2.1 before 2.1.3 and 2.2.x before 2.2.2 does not verify tokens for requests with certain
 content types, which allows remote attackers to bypass cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protection for
 requests to applications that rely on this protection, as demonstrated using text/plain. (CVE-2008-7248)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8fqx-7pv4-3jwm

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 421865

Version: Revision 1.2

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

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2008-7248

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/24/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/14/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-7248

BID: 37322

cwe: CWE-20