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SCA: security update for activerecord (GHSA-fh39-v733-mxfr)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422399

Description

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

 - The Active Record component in Ruby on Rails 3.0.x before 3.0.13, 3.1.x before 3.1.5, and 3.2.x before
 3.2.4 does not properly implement the passing of request data to a where method in an ActiveRecord class,
 which allows remote attackers to conduct certain SQL injection attacks via nested query parameters that
 leverage unintended recursion, a related issue to CVE-2012-2695. (CVE-2012-2661)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fh39-v733-mxfr

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 422399

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-2661

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/24/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/31/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2661

BID: 53753

cwe: CWE-89