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SCA: security update for org.jruby:jruby-stdlib, rubygems-update (GHSA-8qxg-mff5-j3wc)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 412818

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 Directory
 Traversal vulnerability in gem installation that can result in the gem could write to arbitrary filesystem
 locations during installation. This attack appear to be exploitable via the victim must install a
 malicious gem. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.7.6. (CVE-2018-1000079)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8qxg-mff5-j3wc

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 412818

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 8/19/2025

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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-2018-1000079

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/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-2018-1000079

cwe: CWE-22