ActiveSupport::EncryptedFile writes contents that will be encrypted to a temporary file. The temporary file's permissions are defaulted to the user's current `umask` settings, meaning that it's possible for other users on the same system to read the contents of the temporary file. Attackers that have access to the file system could possibly read the contents of this temporary file while a user is editing it. All users running an affected release should either upgrade or use one of the workarounds immediately.

The remote Debian 12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5881 advisory.

    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------     Debian Security Advisory DSA-5881-1                   security@debian.org     https://www.debian.org/security/                       Moritz Muehlenhoff     March 17, 2025                        https://www.debian.org/security/faq
    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Package        : rails     CVE ID         : CVE-2023-28362 CVE-2023-38037 CVE-2024-26144 CVE-2024-28103                      CVE-2024-41128 CVE-2024-47887 CVE-2024-47888 CVE-2024-47889                      CVE-2024-54133

    Multiple security issues were discovered in the Rails web framework     which could result cross-site scripting, information disclosure, denial     of service or bypass of content security policies.

    For the stable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed in     version 2:6.1.7.10+dfsg-1~deb12u1.

    We recommend that you upgrade your rails packages.

    For the detailed security status of rails please refer to     its security tracker page at:
    https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/rails

    Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply     these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be     found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

    Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian security advisory.

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

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - ActiveSupport::EncryptedFile writes contents that will be encrypted to a temporary file. The temporary     file's permissions are defaulted to the user's current `umask` settings, meaning that it's possible for     other users on the same system to read the contents of the temporary file. Attackers that have access to     the file system could possibly read the contents of this temporary file while a user is editing it. All     users running an affected release should either upgrade or use one of the workarounds immediately.
    (CVE-2023-38037)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:2010 advisory.

    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.

    Security fixes:
    * python-pygments: ReDoS in pygments (CVE-2022-40896)
    * python-pycryptodomex: Side-channel leakage for OAEP decryption in PyCryptodome and pycryptodomex     (CVE-2023-52323)
    * satellite: Arithmetic overflow in satellite (CVE-2023-4320)
    * automation-hub: Ansible Automation Hub: insecure galaxy-importer tarfile extraction (CVE-2023-5189)
    * jetty: Improper addition of quotation marks to user inputs in CgiServlet (CVE-2023-36479)
    * python-aiohttp: HTTP request smuggling via llhttp HTTP request parser (CVE-2023-37276)
    * rubygem-activesupport: File Disclosure of Locally Encrypted Files (CVE-2023-38037)
    * jetty: Improper validation of HTTP/1 content-length (CVE-2023-40167)
    * python-django: Potential denial of service vulnerability in `django.utils.encoding.uri_to_iri()`     (CVE-2023-41164)
    * python-django: Denial-of-service possibility in django.utils.text.Truncator (CVE-2023-43665)
    * python-aiohttp: Numerous issues in HTTP parser with header parsing (CVE-2023-47627)
    * python-aiohttp: HTTP request modification (CVE-2023-49081)
    * python-aiohttp: CRLF injection if user controls the HTTP method using aiohttp client (CVE-2023-49082)
    * rubygem-puma: HTTP request smuggling when parsing chunked Transfer-Encoding Bodies (CVE-2024-21647)
    * rubygem-audited: Race condition can lead to audit logs being incorrectly attributed to the wrong user     (CVE-2024-22047)
    * python-jinja2: HTML attribute injection when passing user input as keys to xmlattr filter     (CVE-2024-22195)
    * python-aiohttp: Follow_symlinks directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2024-23334)
    * python-aiohttp: HTTP request smuggling (CVE-2024-23829)

    Additional 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.

The remote openSUSE 15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2023:0350-1 advisory.

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
232892	Debian dsa-5881 : rails - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
232134	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-38037	Nessus	Misc.	medium
199805	RHEL 8 : Satellite 6.15.0 (Important) (RHSA-2024:2010)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
184436	openSUSE 15 Security Update : rubygem-activesupport-5.2 (openSUSE-SU-2023:0350-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium

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