The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:3500 advisory.

    Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text     files and to perform system management tasks.

    Security Fix(es):

    * ruby/cgi-gem: HTTP response splitting in CGI (CVE-2021-33621)

    * ruby: ReDoS vulnerability in URI (CVE-2023-28755)

    * ruby: ReDoS vulnerability in Time (CVE-2023-28756)

    * ruby: RCE vulnerability with .rdoc_options in RDoc (CVE-2024-27281)

    * ruby: Buffer overread vulnerability in StringIO (CVE-2024-27280)

    * ruby: Arbitrary memory address read vulnerability with Regex search (CVE-2024-27282)

    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.

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RHEL 8 : ruby:3.0 (RHSA-2024:3500)

high Nessus Plugin ID 198157

Version 1.5

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Version 1.1

Version 1.5 Nov 7, 2024, 11:28 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202411072328
Version 1.4 Nov 5, 2024, 9:32 PM 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: 202411052132
Version 1.3 Jun 7, 2024, 12:28 PM IAVM reference STIG Severity Plugin Feed: 202406071228
Version 1.2 Jun 4, 2024, 3:18 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202406040318
Version 1.1 May 30, 2024, 10:11 PM New Plugin Feed: 202405302211