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SCA: security update for actionpack (GHSA-78rc-8c29-p45g)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422254

Description

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

 - Action Pack in Ruby on Rails before 3.2.22.2, 4.x before 4.1.14.2, and 4.2.x before 4.2.5.2 allows remote
 attackers to execute arbitrary Ruby code by leveraging an application's unrestricted use of the render
 method. (CVE-2016-2098)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-78rc-8c29-p45g

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422254

Version: Revision 1.3

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: Medium

Score: 5.6

Percentile: 96.99

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-2098

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/24/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/29/2016

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Ruby on Rails ActionPack Inline ERB Code Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2098

BID: 83725

cwe: CWE-20