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SCA: security update for actionpack (GHSA-2xjj-5x6h-8vmf)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422397

Description

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

 - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/form_options_helper.rb in
 the select helper in Ruby on Rails 3.0.x before 3.0.12, 3.1.x before 3.1.4, and 3.2.x before 3.2.2 allows
 remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving certain generation of OPTION
 elements within SELECT elements. (CVE-2012-1099)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2xjj-5x6h-8vmf

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422397

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: 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-2012-1099

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: 3/2/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-1099

BID: 52264

cwe: CWE-79