REST client for Ruby (aka rest-client) before 1.8.0 allows remote attackers to conduct session fixation attacks or obtain sensitive cookie information by leveraging passage of cookies set in a response to a redirect.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:1313 advisory.

    Red Hat Satellite is a systems management tool for Linux-based     infrastructure. It allows for provisioning, remote management, and     monitoring of multiple Linux deployments with a single centralized tool.

    Security Fix(es):

    * foreman: Managing repositories with their id via hammer does not respect the role filters     (CVE-2017-2662)
    * python-psutil: Double free because of refcount mishandling (CVE-2019-18874)
    * candlepin: netty: compression/decompression codecs don't enforce limits on buffer allocation sizes     (CVE-2020-11612)
    * foreman: world-readable OMAPI secret through the ISC DHCP server (CVE-2020-14335)
    * candlepin: resteasy-client: potential sensitive information leakage in JAX-RS RESTEasy Client's     WebApplicationException handling (CVE-2020-25633)
    * python-django: potential SQL injection via tolerance parameter in GIS functions and aggregates on     Oracle (CVE-2020-9402)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS     score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE     page(s) listed in the References section.

    Additional Changes:

    * Usability enhancements to Red Hat's Simple Content Access mode and Satellite

    * Usability improvements to enabling Remote Execution on your hosts.

    * Notifications in the UI to warn users when subscriptions are expiring.

    * Usability enhancements to enable Insights integration with Satellite.

    * Performance improvements to various aspects of the user interface and API.

    * Added support for OpenID Connect for authentication.

    * Usability improvements to the Satellite Installer.

    * Updated Ruby web server to the modern Puma application server which replaces Passenger.

    The items above are not a complete list of changes. This update also fixes     several bugs and adds various enhancements. Documentation for these changes     is available from the Release Notes document linked to in the References     section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Update to rest-client 1.8.0.

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

Andy Brody reports :

When Ruby rest-client processes an HTTP redirection response, it blindly passes along the values from any Set-Cookie headers to the redirection target, regardless of domain, path, or expiration.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
148903	RHEL 7 : Satellite 6.9 Release (Moderate) (RHSA-2021:1313)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
92050	Fedora 23 : rubygem-rest-client (2015-8dce7405bf)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
83941	FreeBSD : rest-client -- session fixation vulnerability (83a7a720-07d8-11e5-9a28-001e67150279)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	critical

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