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SCA: security update for actionpack (GHSA-8xww-x3g3-6jcv)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 412943

Description

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

 - A regular expression based DoS vulnerability in Action Dispatch <6.1.7.1 and <7.0.4.1 related to the If-
 None-Match header. A specially crafted HTTP If-None-Match header can cause the regular expression engine
 to enter a state of catastrophic backtracking, when on a version of Ruby below 3.2.0. This can cause the
 process to use large amounts of CPU and memory, leading to a possible DoS vulnerability All users running
 an affected release should either upgrade or use one of the workarounds immediately. (CVE-2023-22795)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8xww-x3g3-6jcv

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 412943

Version: Revision 1.6

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: 23.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-22795

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/18/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/18/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-22795