SCA: security update for actionpack, activesupport (GHSA-fg9w-g6m4-557j)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423019

Description

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

- A certain algorithm in Ruby on Rails 2.1.0 through 2.2.2, and 2.3.x before 2.3.4, leaks information about
the complexity of message-digest signature verification in the cookie store, which might allow remote
attackers to forge a digest via multiple attempts. (CVE-2009-3086)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fg9w-g6m4-557j

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 423019

Version: Revision 1.5

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: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2009-3086

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/24/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/4/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3086

BID: 37427

cwe: CWE-200