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SCA: security update for org.jruby:jruby-stdlib, rubygems-update (GHSA-87qx-g5wg-mwmj)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 412521

Description

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

 - RubyGems version Ruby 2.2 series: 2.2.9 and earlier, Ruby 2.3 series: 2.3.6 and earlier, Ruby 2.4 series:
 2.4.3 and earlier, Ruby 2.5 series: 2.5.0 and earlier, prior to trunk revision 62422 contains a Cross Site
 Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in gem server display of homepage attribute that can result in XSS. This
 attack appear to be exploitable via the victim must browse to a malicious gem on a vulnerable gem server.
 This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.7.6. (CVE-2018-1000078)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-87qx-g5wg-mwmj

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 412521

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

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-2018-1000078

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/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: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/26/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1000078

cwe: CWE-79