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SCA: security update for actionpack (GHSA-g8ww-46x2-2p65)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 415007

Description

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

 - The actionpack ruby gem (a framework for handling and responding to web requests in Rails) before 6.0.3.7,
 6.1.3.2 suffers from a possible denial of service vulnerability in the Mime type parser of Action
 Dispatch. Carefully crafted Accept headers can cause the mime type parser in Action Dispatch to do
 catastrophic backtracking in the regular expression engine. (CVE-2021-22902)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g8ww-46x2-2p65

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 415007

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-2021-22902

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: 5/5/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/5/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-22902

cwe: CWE-400