AlmaLinux 8 : ruby:2.7 (ALSA-2021:2584)

high Nessus Plugin ID 179412

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2021:2584 advisory.

- An issue was discovered in Ruby through 2.5.8, 2.6.x through 2.6.6, and 2.7.x through 2.7.1. WEBrick, a simple HTTP server bundled with Ruby, had not checked the transfer-encoding header value rigorously. An attacker may potentially exploit this issue to bypass a reverse proxy (which also has a poor header check), which may lead to an HTTP Request Smuggling attack. (CVE-2020-25613)

- The REXML gem before 3.2.5 in Ruby before 2.6.7, 2.7.x before 2.7.3, and 3.x before 3.0.1 does not properly address XML round-trip issues. An incorrect document can be produced after parsing and serializing. (CVE-2021-28965)

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2021-2584.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 179412

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2021-2584.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Published: 8/7/2023

Updated: 8/7/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-28965

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:ruby, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:ruby-default-gems, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-rake, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-rdoc, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-test-unit, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygems, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygems-devel, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::appstream, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:ruby-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:ruby-doc, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:ruby-libs, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-abrt, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-abrt-doc, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-bigdecimal, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-bson, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-bson-doc, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-bundler, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-io-console, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-irb, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-json, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-minitest, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-mongo, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-mongo-doc, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-mysql2, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-mysql2-doc, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-net-telnet, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-openssl, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-pg, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-pg-doc, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-power_assert, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-psych

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/29/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/6/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-25613, CVE-2021-28965

CWE: 444, 611