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Fedora 27 : rubygem-loofah (2018-4ce40afcb6)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 119243

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

XXS when a crafted SVG element is republished (CVE-2018-16468).

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.

Solution

Update the affected rubygem-loofah package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-4ce40afcb6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 119243

File Name: fedora_2018-4ce40afcb6.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/28/2018

Updated: 7/18/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-16468

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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:fedoraproject:fedora:27, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rubygem-loofah

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/28/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/30/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16468