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SCA: security update for activerecord (GHSA-xrr6-3pc4-m447)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422376

Description

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

 - activerecord/lib/active_record/nested_attributes.rb in Active Record in Ruby on Rails 3.1.x and 3.2.x
 before 3.2.22.1, 4.0.x and 4.1.x before 4.1.14.1, 4.2.x before 4.2.5.1, and 5.x before 5.0.0.beta1.1 does
 not properly implement a certain destroy option, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended change
 restrictions by leveraging use of the nested attributes feature. (CVE-2015-7577)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xrr6-3pc4-m447

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422376

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 1/28/2026

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:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-7577

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:N/I:L/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: 1/25/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-7577

BID: 81806

cwe: CWE-284