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SCA: security update for activerecord (GHSA-8hc4-xxm3-5ppp)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 412700

Description

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

 - The PostgreSQL adapter in Active Record before 6.1.2.1, 6.0.3.5, 5.2.4.5 suffers from a regular expression
 denial of service (REDoS) vulnerability. Carefully crafted input can cause the input validation in the
 `money` type of the PostgreSQL adapter in Active Record to spend too much time in a regular expression,
 resulting in the potential for a DoS attack. This only impacts Rails applications that are using
 PostgreSQL along with money type columns that take user input. (CVE-2021-22880)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8hc4-xxm3-5ppp

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 412700

Version: Revision 1.5

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: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-22880

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/2/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/11/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-22880

cwe: CWE-400