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SCA: security update for activerecord (GHSA-pr3r-4wrp-r2pv)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 421823

Description

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

 - Action Record in Ruby on Rails 4.2.x before 4.2.7.1 does not properly consider differences in parameter
 handling between the Active Record component and the JSON implementation, which allows remote attackers to
 bypass intended database-query restrictions and perform NULL checks or trigger missing WHERE clauses via a
 crafted request, as demonstrated by certain "[nil]" values, a related issue to CVE-2012-2660,
 CVE-2012-2694, and CVE-2013-0155. (CVE-2016-6317)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pr3r-4wrp-r2pv

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 421823

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

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: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-6317

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: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: 10/24/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/8/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6317

BID: 92434