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SCA: security update for rack (GHSA-rgr4-9jh5-j4j6)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423378

Description

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

 - lib/rack/utils.rb in Rack before 1.5.4 and 1.6.x before 1.6.2, as used with Ruby on Rails 3.x and 4.x and
 other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (SystemStackError) via a request with
 a large parameter depth. (CVE-2015-3225)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rgr4-9jh5-j4j6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 423378

Version: Revision 1.6

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:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-3225

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:N/I:N/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: 6/16/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3225

BID: 75232