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SCA: security update for rack (GHSA-xj5v-6v4g-jfw6)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 420542

Description

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

 - Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface. Carefully crafted Range headers can cause a server to respond
 with an unexpectedly large response. Responding with such large responses could lead to a denial of
 service issue. Vulnerable applications will use the `Rack::File` middleware or the
 `Rack::Utils.byte_ranges` methods (this includes Rails applications). The vulnerability is fixed in
 3.0.9.1 and 2.2.8.1. (CVE-2024-26141)

Solution

Update the rack library and its related packages to version 2.2.8.1 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xj5v-6v4g-jfw6

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 420542

Version: Revision 1.8

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: 23.73

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-26141

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: 2/28/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/28/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-26141

cwe: CWE-400