The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:0581 advisory.

    Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text     files and to perform system management tasks.

    Security Fix(es):

    * rubygem-bundler: Dependencies of gems with explicit source may be installed from a different source     (CVE-2020-36327)

    * ruby: NUL injection vulnerability of File.fnmatch and File.fnmatch? (CVE-2019-15845)

    * ruby: Regular expression denial of service vulnerability of WEBrick's Digest authentication     (CVE-2019-16201)

    * ruby: Code injection via command argument of Shell#test / Shell#[] (CVE-2019-16255)

    * rubygem-json: Unsafe object creation vulnerability in JSON (CVE-2020-10663)

    * ruby: BasicSocket#read_nonblock method leads to information disclosure (CVE-2020-10933)

    * ruby: Potential HTTP request smuggling in WEBrick (CVE-2020-25613)

    * ruby: XML round-trip vulnerability in REXML (CVE-2021-28965)

    * rubygem-rdoc: Command injection vulnerability in RDoc (CVE-2021-31799)

    * ruby: FTP PASV command response can cause Net::FTP to connect to arbitrary host (CVE-2021-31810)

    * ruby: StartTLS stripping vulnerability in Net::IMAP (CVE-2021-32066)

    * ruby: Regular expression denial of service vulnerability of Date parsing methods (CVE-2021-41817)

    * ruby: Cookie prefix spoofing in CGI::Cookie.parse (CVE-2021-41819)

    * ruby: HTTP response splitting in WEBrick (CVE-2019-16254)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) 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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 8 : ruby:2.6 (RHSA-2022:0581)

high Nessus Plugin ID 158216

Version 1.11

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Version 1.11 Nov 7, 2024, 11:28 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411072328
Version 1.10 Nov 5, 2024, 12:50 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411051250
Version 1.9 Apr 28, 2024, 2:25 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202404281425
Version 1.8 Nov 7, 2023, 3:08 PM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin Feed: 202311071508
Version 1.7 May 25, 2023, 3:03 PM Logic Changes (Added support for ppc64le architecture) Plugin Feed: 202305251503
Version 1.6 Jan 23, 2023, 9:47 PM Logic Changes (Added support for repository relative URLs) Plugin Feed: 202301232147