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SCA: security update for web-console (GHSA-67j6-xv27-w6ww)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422266

Description

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

 - request.rb in Web Console before 2.1.3, as used with Ruby on Rails 3.x and 4.x, does not properly restrict
 the use of X-Forwarded-For headers in determining a client's IP address, which allows remote attackers to
 bypass the whitelisted_ips protection mechanism via a crafted request. (CVE-2015-3224)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-67j6-xv27-w6ww

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422266

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: 3.2

Percentile: 50.81

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-3224

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 4

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

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: 6/16/2015

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Ruby on Rails Web Console (v2) Whitelist Bypass Code Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3224

BID: 75237

cwe: CWE-284