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Fedora 40 : ruby (2025-9bef972bb9)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 234750

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-9bef972bb9 advisory.

 Upgrade to Ruby 3.3.8.

 * CVE-2025-25186: Fix Net::IMAP vulnerable to possible DoS by memory exhaustion<br> Resolves: rhbz#2345556<br>
 * CVE-2025-27219: Denial of Service in CGI::Cookie.parse<br> Resolves: rhbz#2357516<br>
 * CVE-2025-27221: userinfo leakage in URI#join, URI#merge and URI#+



Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 affected ruby package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-9bef972bb9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 234750

File Name: fedora_2025-9bef972bb9.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/23/2025

Updated: 4/23/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-27221

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:L/I:N/A:N

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Threat Score: 1.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-27219

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:40, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ruby

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/14/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/10/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-25186, CVE-2025-27219, CVE-2025-27221