GHSA-hjp3-5g2q-7jww is a low-severity (CVSS 3.1) CWE-362 vulnerability in audited. A fix is available for audited — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for GHSA-hjp3-5g2q-7jww.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
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Real-World Exposure
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Description
In certain setups with threaded web servers, Audited's use of Thread.current can incorrectly attributed audits to the wrong user.
Fixed in 5.3.3.
In March, @convisoappsec noticed that the library in question had a Race Condition problem, which caused logs to be registered at times with different users than those who performed the genuine actions.
- The first issue we identified was from November 2021: https://github.com/collectiveidea/audited/issues/601
- So the solution was implemented in the following Pull Request: https://github.com/collectiveidea/audited/pull/669
- And the feature was published in version 5.3.3: RELEASE: https://github.com/collectiveidea/audited/pull/671
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 💎RubyGems | audited | ≥ 4.0.0&&< 5.3.3 | 5.3.3bundle update audited --conservative |
Affected Products
auditedcollectiveideaDetection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for audited, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update audited to 5.3.3 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms GHSA-hjp3-5g2q-7jww is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
Fixing This On Your OS
If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.
| Product | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Satellite 6.15 for RHEL 8 | rubygem-audited-0:5.4.2-1.el8sat | RHSA-2024:2010 |
Frequently Asked Questions
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