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SCA: security update for rails (GHSA-rxq3-gm4p-5fj4)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422570

Description

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

 - The example code for the digest authentication functionality (http_authentication.rb) in Ruby on Rails
 before 2.3.3 defines an authenticate_or_request_with_http_digest block that returns nil instead of false
 when the user does not exist, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass authentication for
 applications that are derived from this example by sending an invalid username without a password.
 (CVE-2009-2422)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rxq3-gm4p-5fj4

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 422570

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: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2009-2422

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: 7/6/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2422

BID: 35579

cwe: CWE-287