SCA: security update for actionview (GHSA-m63j-wh5w-c252)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422653

Description

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

- There is a possible denial of service vulnerability in Action View (Rails) <5.2.2.1, <5.1.6.2, <5.0.7.2,
<4.2.11.1 where specially crafted accept headers can cause action view to consume 100% cpu and make the
server unresponsive. (CVE-2019-5419)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m63j-wh5w-c252

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422653

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: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-5419

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/13/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/12/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-5419

BID: 107408