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Fedora 38 : rubygem-yard (2024-3744975c4b)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 192324

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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-2024-3744975c4b advisory.

 - YARD is a Ruby Documentation tool. The frames.html file within the Yard Doc's generated documentation is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks due to inadequate sanitization of user input within the JavaScript segment of the frames.erb template file. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.9.36.
 (CVE-2024-27285)

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-yard package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-3744975c4b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 192324

File Name: fedora_2024-3744975c4b.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/20/2024

Updated: 3/20/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-27285

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:38, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rubygem-yard

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/12/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/28/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-27285