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Debian DSA-3931-1 : ruby-rack-cors - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 103792

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Jens Mueller discovered that an incorrect regular expression in rack-cors may lead to insufficient restriction of CORS requests.

Solution

Upgrade the ruby-rack-cors packages.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.4.0-1+deb9u1.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/ruby-rack-cors

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3931

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 103792

File Name: debian_DSA-3931.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/12/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ruby-rack-cors, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 8/10/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-11173

DSA: 3931