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SCA: security update for rails_admin (GHSA-pxr8-w3jq-rcwj)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422769

Description

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

 - An exploitable cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in the add filter functionality of the
 rails_admin rails gem version 1.2.0. A specially crafted URL can cause an XSS flaw resulting in an
 attacker being able to execute arbitrary javascript on the victim's browser. An attacker can phish an
 authenticated user to trigger this vulnerability. (CVE-2017-12098)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pxr8-w3jq-rcwj

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422769

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

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: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-12098

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/5/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/10/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-12098

BID: 102486

cwe: CWE-79