The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2019-2028 advisory.

    - Introduce 'Gem::UserInteraction#verbose' method as precondition to fix       CVE-2019-8321.
      * rubygems-2.3.0-refactor-checking-really_verbose.patch
    - Fix escape sequence injection vulnerability in gem owner.
      Resolves: CVE-2019-8322
    - Fix escape sequence injection vulnerability in API response handling.
      Resolves: CVE-2019-8323
    - Prohibit arbitrary code execution when installing a malicious gem.
      Resolves: CVE-2019-8324

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle 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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Oracle Linux 7 : ruby (ELSA-2019-2028)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 180804

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Version 1.2 Nov 2, 2024, 2:28 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202411020228
Version 1.1 Oct 23, 2024, 12:00 AM 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: 202410230000
Version 1.0 Sep 7, 2023, 9:48 PM New Plugin Feed: 202309072148