Debian DLA-1585-1 : ruby-rack security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 119102

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was an XSS vulnerability in the ruby-rack web-server library.

A malicious request could impact the HTTP/HTTPS scheme being returned to the underlying application.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this issue has been fixed in ruby-rack version 1.5.2-3+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your ruby-rack packages.

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

Solution

Upgrade the affected ruby-rack package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 119102

File Name: debian_DLA-1585.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 11/23/2018

Updated: 7/19/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-16471

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ruby-rack

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/21/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/13/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16471

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