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SCA: security update for ruby-openid (GHSA-6c8p-qphv-668v)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423246

Description

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

 - The ruby-openid gem before 2.2.2 for Ruby allows remote OpenID providers to cause a denial of service (CPU
 consumption) via (1) a large XRDS document or (2) an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack. (CVE-2013-1812)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6c8p-qphv-668v

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 423246

Version: Revision 1.3

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: 3.2

Percentile: 50.81

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:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-1812

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/24/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/1/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1812

BID: 58258