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EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : ruby (EulerOS-SA-2024-2821)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 210692
Synopsis
The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.Description
According to the versions of the ruby packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.2.6 has a denial of service vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many ``s in an attribute value. Those who need to parse untrusted XMLs may be impacted to this vulnerability. The REXML gem 3.2.7 or later include the patch to fix this vulnerability.
As a workaround, don't parse untrusted XMLs.(CVE-2024-35176)
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS ruby 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 ruby packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 210692
File Name: EulerOS_SA-2024-2821.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: local
Family: Huawei Local Security Checks
Published: 11/8/2024
Updated: 11/8/2024
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 1.4
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-2024-35176
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:huawei:euleros:ruby, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ruby-irb, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ruby-help
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp
Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 11/8/2024
Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/16/2024
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2024-35176