Ubuntu 24.04 LTS : Puma vulnerability (USN-7031-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 207703

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-7031-1 advisory.

It was discovered that Puma incorrectly handled parsing certain headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite header values set by intermediate proxies by providing duplicate headers containing underscore characters.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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 puma package.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7031-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 207703

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7031-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/24/2024

Updated: 9/24/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-45614

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:puma, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/24/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/19/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-45614

USN: 7031-1