RHEL 7 : rubygem-em-http-request (RHSA-2021:0937)

high Nessus Plugin ID 147880

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for rubygem-em-http-request.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:0937 advisory.

EventMachine based, async HTTP Request client.

Security Fix(es):

* missing SSL hostname validation allows MITM (CVE-2020-13482)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL rubygem-em-http-request package based on the guidance in RHSA-2021:0937.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?77bff4b6

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0937

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1911457

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 147880

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-0937.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/18/2021

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-13482

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-em-http-request, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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: 3/18/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/25/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-13482

CWE: 297

RHSA: 2021:0937