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SCA: security update for actionpack (GHSA-24fg-p96v-hxh8)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423170

Description

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

 - Ruby on Rails 2.1.x, 2.2.x, and 2.3.x before 2.3.11, and 3.x before 3.0.4, does not properly validate HTTP
 requests that contain an X-Requested-With header, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct
 cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks via forged (1) AJAX or (2) API requests that leverage
 "combinations of browser plugins and HTTP redirects," a related issue to CVE-2011-0696. (CVE-2011-0447)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-24fg-p96v-hxh8

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 423170

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: 2.8

Percentile: 22.22

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-0447

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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: 2/9/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0447

BID: 46291

cwe: CWE-352