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SCA: security update for actionpack-page_caching (GHSA-mg5p-95m9-rmfp)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423145

Description

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

 - There is a vulnerability in actionpack_page-caching gem < v1.2.1 that allows an attacker to write
 arbitrary files to a web server, potentially resulting in remote code execution if the attacker can write
 unescaped ERB to a view. (CVE-2020-8159)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mg5p-95m9-rmfp

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 423145

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8159

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/12/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-8159

cwe: CWE-22