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SCA: security update for activesupport (GHSA-9c2j-593q-3g82)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422267

Description

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

 - The ActiveSupport::XmlMini_JDOM backend in lib/active_support/xml_mini/jdom.rb in the Active Support
 component in Ruby on Rails 3.0.x and 3.1.x before 3.1.12 and 3.2.x before 3.2.13, when JRuby is used, does
 not properly restrict the capabilities of the XML parser, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary
 files or cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via vectors involving (1) an external DTD or (2)
 an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference. (CVE-2013-1856)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9c2j-593q-3g82

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422267

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 8/8/2025

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-1856

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

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: 3/18/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1856

BID: 58554

cwe: CWE-20