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SCA: security update for activejob (GHSA-q2qw-rmrh-vv42)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423396

Description

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

 - A Broken Access Control vulnerability in Active Job versions >= 4.2.0 allows an attacker to craft user
 input which can cause Active Job to deserialize it using GlobalId and give them access to information that
 they should not have. This vulnerability has been fixed in versions 4.2.11, 5.0.7.1, 5.1.6.1, and 5.2.1.1.
 (CVE-2018-16476)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q2qw-rmrh-vv42

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 423396

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: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-16476

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/5/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/30/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16476