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SCA: security update for publify_core (GHSA-8fm5-gg2f-f66q)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422724

Description

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

 - Publify is a self hosted Web publishing platform on Rails. Prior to version 10.0.1 of Publify,
 corresponding to versions prior to 10.0.2 of the `publify_core` rubygem, publisher on a `publify`
 application is able to perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack on an administrator using the redirect
 functionality. The exploitation of this XSS vulnerability requires the administrator to click a malicious
 link. An attack could attempt to hide their payload by using HTML, or other encodings, as to not make it
 obvious to an administrator that this is a malicious link. A publisher may attempt to use this
 vulnerability to escalate their privileges and become an administrator. Version 10.0.1 of Publify and
 version 10.0.2 of the `publify_core` rubygem fix the issue. (CVE-2024-39311)

Solution

Update the publify_core library and its related packages to version 10.0.2 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8fm5-gg2f-f66q

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422724

Version: Revision 1.8

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: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-39311

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Threat Score: 1.8

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/28/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/28/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-39311

cwe: CWE-79