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SCA: security update for actionpack, activesupport (GHSA-v9v4-7jp6-8c73)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423397

Description

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

 - The cross-site scripting (XSS) prevention feature in Ruby on Rails 2.x before 2.3.12, 3.0.x before 3.0.8,
 and 3.1.x before 3.1.0.rc2 does not properly handle mutation of safe buffers, which makes it easier for
 remote attackers to conduct XSS attacks via crafted strings to an application that uses a problematic
 string method, as demonstrated by the sub method. (CVE-2011-2197)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v9v4-7jp6-8c73

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 423397

Version: Revision 1.6

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: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-2197

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/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: 10/24/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/8/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-2197

BID: 48169

cwe: CWE-79