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SCA: security update for rails (GHSA-9p3v-wf2w-v29c)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423015

Description

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

 - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the strip_tags function in Ruby on Rails before 2.2.s, and
 2.3.x before 2.3.5, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving
 non-printing ASCII characters, related to HTML::Tokenizer and
 actionpack/lib/action_controller/vendor/html-scanner/html/node.rb. (CVE-2009-4214)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9p3v-wf2w-v29c

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 423015

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: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

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-2009-4214

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/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: 11/27/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-4214

BID: 37142

cwe: CWE-79