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Debian DLA-2149-1 : rails security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 134716

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

In ActionView before versions 6.0.2.2 and 5.2.4.2, there is a possible XSS vulnerability in ActionView's JavaScript literal escape helpers.
Views that use the `j` or `escape_javascript` methods may be susceptible to XSS attacks.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 2:4.1.8-1+deb8u6.

We recommend that you upgrade your rails 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 packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00022.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/rails

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 134716

File Name: debian_DLA-2149.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/20/2020

Updated: 3/21/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-5267

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/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-rails, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ruby-activerecord, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ruby-actionmailer, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ruby-railties, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ruby-activemodel, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ruby-activesupport-2.3, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ruby-activesupport, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ruby-actionpack, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rails, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ruby-actionview

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: 3/19/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/19/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-5267