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EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : ruby (EulerOS-SA-2023-2341)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 178088

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the versions of the ruby packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

 - A ReDoS issue was discovered in the Time component through 0.2.1 in Ruby through 3.2.1. The Time parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters. It causes an increase in execution time for parsing strings to Time objects. The fixed versions are 0.1.1 and 0.2.2. (CVE-2023-28756)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected ruby packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?7aeece2f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 178088

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2023-2341.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Published: 7/9/2023

Updated: 7/9/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-28756

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ruby-help, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ruby-irb, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ruby

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/10/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/30/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-28756