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Ruby on Rails < 1.2.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 4248

Synopsis

The remote host is vulnerable to multiple attack vectors.

Description

The remote server is running the Ruby on Rails web application.
This version of Rails is reported to be vulnerable to a number of flaws. It is reported that a remote attacker can perform man-in-the-middle attacks and gain user credentials. It is also reported that there is a content-parsing flaw in the XML handler that would allow an attacker to either gain unauthorized access to data or cause the application to fail.

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.2.5 or higher.

See Also

http://www.rubyonrails.com

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 4248

Family: Web Servers

Published: 10/17/2007

Updated: 3/6/2019

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/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:/a:david_hansson:ruby_on_rails

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5379, CVE-2007-5380

BID: 26096