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SCA: security update for activerecord (GHSA-9rf5-jm6f-2fmm)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422258

Description

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

 - activerecord/lib/active_record/relation/query_methods.rb in Active Record in Ruby on Rails 4.0.x before
 4.0.9 and 4.1.x before 4.1.5 allows remote attackers to bypass the strong parameters protection mechanism
 via crafted input to an application that makes create_with calls. (CVE-2014-3514)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9rf5-jm6f-2fmm

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422258

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: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-3514

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/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: 8/18/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3514

BID: 69265

cwe: CWE-284