SCA: security update for rubygems-update (GHSA-3h4r-pjv6-cph9)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423109

Description

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

- An issue was discovered in RubyGems 2.6 and later through 3.0.2. Gem::GemcutterUtilities#with_response may
output the API response to stdout as it is. Therefore, if the API side modifies the response, escape
sequence injection may occur. (CVE-2019-8323)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3h4r-pjv6-cph9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 423109

Version: Revision 1.3

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: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-8323

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:H/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: 6/20/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/23/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-8323

cwe: CWE-74