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SCA: security update for actionpack, rails (GHSA-m46p-ggm5-5j83)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422721

Description

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

 - Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/number_helper.rb
 in Ruby on Rails before 3.2.17, 4.0.x before 4.0.3, and 4.1.x before 4.1.0.beta2 allow remote attackers to
 inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) format, (2) negative_format, or (3) units parameter to the
 (a) number_to_currency, (b) number_to_percentage, or (c) number_to_human helper. (CVE-2014-0081)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m46p-ggm5-5j83

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422721

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

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-2014-0081

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/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: 2/18/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0081

BID: 65647

cwe: CWE-79