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RHEL 6 : rubygem-activesupport (RHSA-2013:0202)

high Nessus Plugin ID 119430

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

An updated rubygem-activesupport package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 1.0.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

Ruby on Rails is a model-view-controller (MVC) framework for web application development. Active Support provides support and utility classes used by the Ruby on Rails framework.

A flaw was found in the way Active Support performed the parsing of JSON requests by translating them to YAML. A remote attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a Ruby on Rails application, perform SQL injection attacks, or bypass the authentication using a specially-created JSON request. (CVE-2013-0333)

Red Hat would like to thank Ruby on Rails upstream for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Lawrence Pit of Mirror42 as the original reporter.

All users of Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which resolves this issue. For Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise administrators, the openshift-broker and openshift-console services must be restarted for this update to take effect. Users of OpenShift are advised to update their own applications that are running Ruby on Rails.

Solution

Update the affected rubygem-activesupport package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:0202

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2013-0333

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 119430

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2013-0202.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/6/2018

Updated: 2/1/2022

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-0333

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-activesupport, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/28/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/30/2013

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Ruby on Rails JSON Processor YAML Deserialization Code Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-0333

BID: 57575

RHSA: 2013:0202