SCA: security update for activestorage (GHSA-7rr7-rcjw-56vj)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423230

Description

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

- A bypass vulnerability in Active Storage >= 5.2.0 for Google Cloud Storage and Disk services allow an
attacker to modify the `content-disposition` and `content-type` parameters which can be used in with HTML
files and have them executed inline. Additionally, if combined with other techniques such as cookie
bombing and specially crafted AppCache manifests, an attacker can gain access to private signed URLs
within a specific storage path. This vulnerability has been fixed in version 5.2.1.1. (CVE-2018-16477)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7rr7-rcjw-56vj

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 423230

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: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-16477

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/5/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/30/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16477

cwe: CWE-200