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SCA: security update for activesupport (GHSA-j96r-xvjq-r9pg)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422741

Description

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

 - The (1) jdom.rb and (2) rexml.rb components in Active Support in Ruby on Rails before 4.1.11 and 4.2.x
 before 4.2.2, when JDOM or REXML is enabled, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service
 (SystemStackError) via a large XML document depth. (CVE-2015-3227)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j96r-xvjq-r9pg

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422741

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: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-3227

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/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: 6/17/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3227

BID: 75234