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SCA: security update for actionpack (GHSA-q759-hwvc-m3jg)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422393

Description

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

 - The sanitize_css method in lib/action_controller/vendor/html-scanner/html/sanitizer.rb in the Action Pack
 component in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.18, 3.0.x and 3.1.x before 3.1.12, and 3.2.x before 3.2.13 does not
 properly handle \n (newline) characters, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct cross-site
 scripting (XSS) attacks via crafted Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequences. (CVE-2013-1855)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q759-hwvc-m3jg

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422393

Version: Revision 1.4

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: 3.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-1855

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/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: 3/18/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1855

BID: 58552

cwe: CWE-79