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

  - actionpack/lib/action_view/template/resolver.rb in Ruby on Rails 3.0.x before 3.0.4, when a case-
    insensitive filesystem is used, does not properly implement filters associated with the list of available
    templates, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via an action name that
    uses an unintended case for alphabetic characters. (CVE-2011-0449)

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201412-28 (Ruby on Rails: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ruby on Rails. Please       review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of       Service condition. Furthermore, a remote attacker may be able to execute       arbitrary SQL commands, change parameter names for form inputs and make       changes to arbitrary records in the system, bypass intended access       restrictions, render arbitrary views, inject arbitrary web script or       HTML, or conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

Update to the Rails 3.0.5

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update of rails fixes the following security issues :

CVE-2011-2930 - SQL-injection in quote_table_name function via specially crafted column names (bnc#712062) CVE-2011-2931 - Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in the strip_tags helper (bnc#712057) CVE-2011-3186 - Response Splitting (bnc#712058) CVE-2010-3933 - Arbitrary modification of records via specially crafted form parameters (bnc#712058) CVE-2011-0446 - Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in the mail_to helper (bnc#668817) CVE-2011-0447 - Improper validation of 'X-Requested-With' header (bnc#668817) CVE-2011-0448 - SQL-injection caused by improperly sanitized arguments to the limit function (bnc#668817) CVE-2011-0449 - Bypass of access restrictions via specially crafted action names (bnc#668817)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
421871	SCA: security update for actionpack (GHSA-4ww3-3rxj-8v6q)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	3/28/2025	7/2/2026	high
421871	SCA: security update for actionpack (GHSA-4ww3-3rxj-8v6q)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	3/28/2025	7/2/2026	high
79981	GLSA-201412-28 : Ruby on Rails: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	12/15/2014	1/6/2021	critical
53299	Fedora 15 : rubygem-actionmailer-3.0.5-1.fc15 / rubygem-actionpack-3.0.5-1.fc15 / etc (2011-4358)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	4/6/2011	1/11/2021	high
75730	openSUSE Security Update : rubygem-actionmailer (openSUSE-SU-2011:1305-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	6/13/2014	1/14/2021	high
76016	openSUSE Security Update : rubygem-actionmailer (openSUSE-SU-2011:1305-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	6/13/2014	1/19/2021	high

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