The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:3291 advisory.

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

    The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rh-ruby27-ruby (2.7.8).
    (BZ#2149267)

    Security Fix(es):

    * ruby/cgi-gem: HTTP response splitting in CGI (CVE-2021-33621)

    * ruby: ReDoS vulnerability in URI (CVE-2023-28755)

    * ruby: ReDoS vulnerability in Time (CVE-2023-28756)

    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 7 : rh-ruby27-ruby (RHSA-2023:3291)

high Nessus Plugin ID 176320

Version 1.2

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Version 1.2 Nov 7, 2024, 5:29 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411071729
Version 1.1 Apr 28, 2024, 2:25 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202404281425
Version 1.0 May 24, 2023, 8:43 PM New Plugin Feed: 202305242043