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Fedora 38 : rubygem-redcarpet (2023-44daa9c1d4)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 175306

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-44daa9c1d4 advisory.

 A security flow was found on redcarpet that escaping html was not properly done even if requested on some cases which may cause XSS vulnerability. This issue is now assigned as CVE-2020-26298. This new rpm should fix this issue.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 affected rubygem-redcarpet package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-44daa9c1d4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 175306

File Name: fedora_2023-44daa9c1d4.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/9/2023

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-26298

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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:fedoraproject:fedora:rubygem-redcarpet, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:38

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/30/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/11/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-26298