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SCA: security update for devise (GHSA-jp94-3292-c3xv)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 441543

Description

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

 - Devise is an authentication solution for Rails based on Warden. In versions 5.0.3 and below, when the
 Timeoutable module is enabled in Devise, the FailureApp#redirect_url method returns request.referrer — the
 HTTP Referer header, which is attacker-controllable — without validation for any non-GET request that
 results in a session timeout. An attacker who hosts a page with an auto-submitting cross-origin form can
 cause a victim with an expired Devise session to be redirected to an arbitrary external URL. This
 contrasts with the GET timeout path (which uses server-side attempted_path) and Devise's own
 store_location_for mechanism (which strips external hosts via extract_path_from_location), both of which
 are protected; only the non-GET timeout redirect path is unprotected. Expired-session users can be
 silently redirected from the trusted app domain to attacker-controlled URLs, enabling phishing and malware
 delivery while bypassing browser warnings. Note: Rails' built-in open-redirect protection does not
 mitigate this issue. Devise::FailureApp is an ActionController::Metal app with its own isolated copy of
 the relevant redirect configuration, so config.action_controller.action_on_open_redirect = :raise (and the
 older raise_on_open_redirects setting) do not reach it. This issue has been fixed in version 5.0.4.
 (CVE-2026-40295)

Solution

Update the devise library and its related packages to version 5.0.4 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jp94-3292-c3xv

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 441543

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 5/8/2026

Updated: 5/30/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 9.41

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-40295

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/8/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/8/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-40295

cwe: CWE-601