RHEL 6 : rubygem-actionpack and ruby193-rubygem-actionpack (RHSA-2013:0698)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 119434

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for rubygem-actionpack / ruby193-rubygem-actionpack.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2013:0698 advisory.

Ruby on Rails is a modelviewcontroller (MVC) framework for web application development. Action Pack implements the controller and the view components.

Two cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws were found in rubygem-actionpack and ruby193-rubygem-actionpack. A remote attacker could use these flaws to conduct XSS attacks against users of an application using rubygem-actionpack or ruby193-rubygem-actionpack. (CVE-2013-1855, CVE-2013-1857)

Red Hat would like to thank Ruby on Rails upstream for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Charlie Somerville as the original reporter of CVE-2013-1855, and Alan Jenkins as the original reporter of CVE-2013-1857.

Users of Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 1.1.3 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct these issues.

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.

Solution

Update the RHEL rubygem-actionpack / ruby193-rubygem-actionpack packages based on the guidance in RHSA-2013:0698.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 119434

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2013-0698.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 12/6/2018

Updated: 11/4/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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-2013-1857

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: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-actionpack, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-doc, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-rubygem-actionpack

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: 4/2/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/19/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1855, CVE-2013-1857

BID: 58552, 58555

CWE: 79

RHSA: 2013:0698

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