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SCA: security update for activesupport (GHSA-xgr2-v94m-rc9g)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422271

Description

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

 - lib/active_support/json/backends/yaml.rb in Ruby on Rails 2.3.x before 2.3.16 and 3.0.x before 3.0.20 does
 not properly convert JSON data to YAML data for processing by a YAML parser, which allows remote attackers
 to execute arbitrary code, conduct SQL injection attacks, or bypass authentication via crafted data that
 triggers unsafe decoding, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-0156. (CVE-2013-0333)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xgr2-v94m-rc9g

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 422271

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: High

Score: 7.9

Percentile: 99.42

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-2013-0333

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

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

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: 1/28/2013

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Ruby on Rails JSON Processor YAML Deserialization Code Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-0333

BID: 57575

cwe: CWE-74