Debian DLA-1986-1 : ruby-haml security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 130771

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

In haml, when using user input to perform tasks on the server, characters like < > ' ' must be escaped properly. In this case, the ' character was missed. An attacker can manipulate the input to introduce additional attributes, potentially executing code.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.5-2+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ruby-haml 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-haml package.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00007.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/ruby-haml

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 130771

File Name: debian_DLA-1986.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/12/2019

Updated: 4/12/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-1002201

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/10/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/15/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-1002201