SCA: security update for actionpack, actionview (GHSA-xrr4-p6fq-hjg7)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423349

Description

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

- Directory traversal vulnerability in Action View in Ruby on Rails before 3.2.22.1, 4.0.x and 4.1.x before
4.1.14.1, 4.2.x before 4.2.5.1, and 5.x before 5.0.0.beta1.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary
files by leveraging an application's unrestricted use of the render method and providing a .. (dot dot) in
a pathname. (CVE-2016-0752)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xrr4-p6fq-hjg7

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 423349

Version: Revision 1.13

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: 5

Percentile: 95.09

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-0752

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/24/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/25/2016

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 4/15/2022

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (Ruby on Rails Dynamic Render File Upload Remote Code Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-0752

BID: 81801

cwe: CWE-22