RHEL 6 / 7 : rh-ror50-rubygem-actionpack (RHSA-2019:1147)

high Nessus Plugin ID 194046

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for rh-ror50-rubygem-actionpack.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1147 advisory.

Ruby on Rails is a model-view-controller (MVC) framework for web application development. Action Pack implements the controller and the view components.

Security Fix(es):

* rubygem-actionpack: render file directory traversal in Action View (CVE-2019-5418)

* rubygem-actionpack: denial of service vulnerability in Action View (CVE-2019-5419)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise 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.

Solution

Update the RHEL rh-ror50-rubygem-actionpack package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:1147.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 194046

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-1147.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/27/2024

Updated: 11/6/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-5418

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ror50-rubygem-actionpack, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-ror50-rubygem-actionpack-doc, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/12/2019

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Elliot (Rails File Disclosure)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-5418, CVE-2019-5419

CWE: 20, 200

RHSA: 2019:1147

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