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SCA: security update for activerecord (GHSA-76wq-xw4h-f8wj)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422276

Description

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

 - The Active Record component in Ruby on Rails before 3.0.14, 3.1.x before 3.1.6, and 3.2.x before 3.2.6
 does not properly implement the passing of request data to a where method in an ActiveRecord class, which
 allows remote attackers to conduct certain SQL injection attacks via nested query parameters that leverage
 improper handling of nested hashes, a related issue to CVE-2012-2661. (CVE-2012-2695)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-76wq-xw4h-f8wj

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422276

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 8/7/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-2695

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.6

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/24/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/12/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2695

BID: 53970

cwe: CWE-89