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SCA: security update for activerecord (GHSA-fhj9-cjjh-27vm)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422733

Description

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

 - ActiveRecord in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.17 and 3.x before 3.1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial
 of service or execute arbitrary code via crafted serialized attributes that cause the +serialize+ helper
 to deserialize arbitrary YAML. (CVE-2013-0277)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fhj9-cjjh-27vm

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 422733

Version: Revision 1.2

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: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-0277

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/24/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/11/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-0277

BID: 57898

cwe: CWE-502