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SCA: security update for rails_admin (GHSA-pxqr-8v54-m2hj)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423047

Description

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

 - rails_admin ruby gem <v1.1.1 is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks. Non-GET methods
 were not validating CSRF tokens and, as a result, an attacker could hypothetically gain access to the
 application administrative endpoints exposed by the gem. (CVE-2016-10522)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pxqr-8v54-m2hj

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 423047

Version: Revision 1.5

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

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-10522

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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: 8/8/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/11/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-10522

cwe: CWE-352