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SCA: security update for actionpack (GHSA-jmgw-6vjg-jjwg)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 421857

Description

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

 - active_support/core_ext/hash/conversions.rb in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.15, 3.0.x before 3.0.19, 3.1.x
 before 3.1.10, and 3.2.x before 3.2.11 does not properly restrict casts of string values, which allows
 remote attackers to conduct object-injection attacks and execute arbitrary code, or cause a denial of
 service (memory and CPU consumption) involving nested XML entity references, by leveraging Action Pack
 support for (1) YAML type conversion or (2) Symbol type conversion. (CVE-2013-0156)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jmgw-6vjg-jjwg

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 421857

Version: Revision 1.3

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: Medium

Score: 5.6

Percentile: 96.53

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-0156

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/24/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/8/2013

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Ruby on Rails XML Processor YAML Deserialization Code Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-0156

BID: 57187

cwe: CWE-20