SCA: security update for actionpack (GHSA-xxr8-833v-c7wc)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422395

Description

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

- Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the i18n translations helper method in Ruby on Rails 3.0.x
before 3.0.11 and 3.1.x before 3.1.2, and the rails_xss plugin in Ruby on Rails 2.3.x, allows remote
attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to a translations string whose name
ends with an "html" substring. (CVE-2011-4319)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xxr8-833v-c7wc

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422395

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: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

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-2011-4319

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: 11/17/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4319

BID: 50722

cwe: CWE-79