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SCA: security update for authlogic (GHSA-rx7j-mw4c-76g9)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 418985

Description

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

 - The Authlogic gem for Ruby on Rails, when used with certain versions before 3.2.10, makes potentially
 unsafe find_by_id method calls, which might allow remote attackers to conduct CVE-2012-6496 SQL injection
 attacks via a crafted parameter in environments that have a known secret_token value, as demonstrated by a
 value contained in secret_token.rb in an open-source product. (CVE-2012-6497)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rx7j-mw4c-76g9

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 418985

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-6497

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/21/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-6497

BID: 57084

cwe: CWE-200