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SCA: security update for actionpack (GHSA-jp5v-5gx4-jmj9)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423529

Description

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

 - A CSRF forgery vulnerability exists in rails < 5.2.5, rails < 6.0.4 that makes it possible for an attacker
 to, given a global CSRF token such as the one present in the authenticity_token meta tag, forge a per-form
 CSRF token. (CVE-2020-8166)

Solution

Update the actionpack library and its related packages to version 5.2.4.3 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jp5v-5gx4-jmj9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 423529

Version: Revision 1.5

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: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8166

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:L/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: 5/26/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/26/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-8166

cwe: CWE-352