RHEL 6 / 7 : ruby193-rubygem-katello (RHSA-2016:1083)

high Nessus Plugin ID 91179

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

An update for ruby193-rubygem-katello is now available for Red Hat Satellite 6.1.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Red Hat Satellite is a system management solution that allows organizations to configure and maintain their systems without the necessity to provide public Internet access to their servers or other client systems. It performs provisioning and configuration management of predefined standard operating environments.

Security Fix(es) :

* An input sanitization flaw was found in the scoped search parameters sort_by and sort_order in the REST API. An authenticated user could use this flaw to perform a SQL injection attack on the Katello back end database. (CVE-2016-3072)

Solution

Update the affected ruby193-rubygem-katello package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1083

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-3072

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 91179

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2016-1083.nasl

Version: 2.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/17/2016

Updated: 10/24/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-rubygem-katello, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/16/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/7/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-3072

RHSA: 2016:1083