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SCA: security update for actionpack (GHSA-92w9-2pqw-rhjj)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423399

Description

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

 - The decode_credentials method in actionpack/lib/action_controller/metal/http_authentication.rb in Ruby on
 Rails 3.x before 3.0.16, 3.1.x before 3.1.7, and 3.2.x before 3.2.7 converts Digest Authentication strings
 to symbols, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by leveraging access to an
 application that uses a with_http_digest helper method, as demonstrated by the
 authenticate_or_request_with_http_digest method. (CVE-2012-3424)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-92w9-2pqw-rhjj

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 423399

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 8/8/2025

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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-2012-3424

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/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: 10/24/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/26/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3424

BID: 54704

cwe: CWE-287