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Fedora 27 : 1:rubygem-rack (2018-5743ef02a1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 119245

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Cross-site scripting (XSS) via `scheme` method on `Rack::Request` (CVE-2018-16471).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected 1:rubygem-rack package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-5743ef02a1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 119245

File Name: fedora_2018-5743ef02a1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/28/2018

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:1:rubygem-rack, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:27

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/28/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/13/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16471