SCA: security update for activesupport (GHSA-qv8p-v9qw-wc7g)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422275

Description

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

- Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Ruby on Rails 3.0.x before 3.0.12, 3.1.x before 3.1.4, and
3.2.x before 3.2.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving a
SafeBuffer object that is manipulated through certain methods. (CVE-2012-1098)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qv8p-v9qw-wc7g

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422275

Version: Revision 1.4

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: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-1098

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/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: 3/2/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-1098

BID: 52264

cwe: CWE-79