NewStart CGSL CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04 : ruby Vulnerability (NS-SA-2024-0012)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 193538

Synopsis

The remote NewStart CGSL host is affected by a vulnerability.

Description

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04, has ruby packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability:

- 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 Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade the vulnerable CGSL ruby packages. Note that updated packages may not be available yet. Please contact ZTE for more information.

See Also

https://security.gd-linux.com/notice/NS-SA-2024-0012

https://security.gd-linux.com/info/CVE-2023-28756

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 193538

File Name: newstart_cgsl_NS-SA-2024-0012_ruby.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Published: 4/18/2024

Updated: 4/18/2024

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:zte:cgsl_core:ruby, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_core:ruby-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_core:ruby-devel, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_core:ruby-doc, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_core:ruby-irb, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_core:ruby-libs, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_core:ruby-tcltk, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_core:rubygem-bigdecimal, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_core:rubygem-io-console, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_core:rubygem-json, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_core:rubygem-minitest, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_core:rubygem-psych, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_core:rubygem-rake, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_core:rubygem-rdoc, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_core:rubygems, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_core:rubygems-devel, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:ruby, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:ruby-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:ruby-devel, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:ruby-doc, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:ruby-irb, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:ruby-libs, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:ruby-tcltk, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:rubygem-bigdecimal, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:rubygem-io-console, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:rubygem-json, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:rubygem-minitest, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:rubygem-psych, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:rubygem-rake, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:rubygem-rdoc, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:rubygems, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:rubygems-devel, cpe:/o:zte:cgsl_core:5, cpe:/o:zte:cgsl_main:5

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/12/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/30/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-28756