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SCA: security update for actionpack (GHSA-h56m-vwxc-3qpw)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422548

Description

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

 - Directory traversal vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/static.rb in Action Pack in
 Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.2.21, 4.0.x before 4.0.12, 4.1.x before 4.1.8, and 4.2.x before 4.2.0.beta4,
 when serve_static_assets is enabled, allows remote attackers to determine the existence of files outside
 the application root via vectors involving a \ (backslash) character, a similar issue to CVE-2014-7818.
 (CVE-2014-7829)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h56m-vwxc-3qpw

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422548

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: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-7829

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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: 11/18/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-7829

BID: 71183

cwe: CWE-22