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Fedora 23 : rubygem-actionpack-4.2.3-5.fc23 / rubygem-actionview-4.2.3-5.fc23 (2016-f6af14570f)

high Nessus Plugin ID 90016

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Synopsis

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

Description

- Fix rails-html-sanitizer v1.0.3 compatibility. * Fix code injection vulnerability (CVE-2016-2098).

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Solution

Update the affected rubygem-actionpack and / or rubygem-actionview packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1310054

http://www.nessus.org/u?2c725a74

http://www.nessus.org/u?f493f2b9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 90016

File Name: fedora_2016-f6af14570f.nasl

Version: 2.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/18/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rubygem-actionpack, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:rubygem-actionview

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/17/2016

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Ruby on Rails ActionPack Inline ERB Code Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2098