The actionpack ruby gem (a framework for handling and responding to web requests in Rails) before 6.0.3.7, 6.1.3.2 suffers from a possible denial of service vulnerability in the Mime type parser of Action Dispatch. Carefully crafted Accept headers can cause the mime type parser in Action Dispatch to do catastrophic backtracking in the regular expression engine.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - The actionpack ruby gem (a framework for handling and responding to web requests in Rails) before 6.0.3.7,     6.1.3.2 suffers from a possible denial of service vulnerability in the Mime type parser of Action     Dispatch. Carefully crafted Accept headers can cause the mime type parser in Action Dispatch to do     catastrophic backtracking in the regular expression engine. (CVE-2021-22902)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - The actionpack ruby gem (a framework for handling and responding to web requests in Rails) before 6.0.3.7,
    6.1.3.2 suffers from a possible denial of service vulnerability in the Mime type parser of Action
    Dispatch. Carefully crafted Accept headers can cause the mime type parser in Action Dispatch to do
    catastrophic backtracking in the regular expression engine. (CVE-2021-22902)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:4702 advisory.

    Red Hat Satellite is a systems management tool for Linux-based     infrastructure. It allows for provisioning, remote management, and     monitoring of multiple Linux deployments with a single centralized tool.

    Security Fix(es):
    * python-ecdsa: Unexpected and undocumented exceptions during signature decoding (CVE-2019-14853)
    * python-ecdsa: DER encoding is not being verified in signatures (CVE-2019-14859)
    * rubygem-activerecord-session_store: hijack sessions by using timing attacks targeting the session id     (CVE-2019-25025)
    * rake: OS Command Injection via egrep in Rake::FileList (CVE-2020-8130)
    * candlepin: guava - local information disclosure via temporary directory created with unsafe permissions     (CVE-2020-8908)
    * PyYAML: incomplete fix for CVE-2020-1747 (CVE-2020-14343)
    * tfm-rubygem-nokogiri: XML external entity injection via Nokogiri::XML::Schema (CVE-2020-26247)
    * tfm-rubygem-foreman_azure_rm: Azure compute resource secret_key leak to authenticated users     (CVE-2021-3413)
    * foreman: possible man-in-the-middle in smart_proxy realm_freeipa (CVE-2021-3494)
    * foreman: BMC controller credential leak via API (CVE-2021-20256)
    * python-aiohttp: Open redirect in aiohttp.web_middlewares.normalize_path_middleware (CVE-2021-21330)
    * rubygem-actionpack: Possible Information Disclosure / Unintended Method Execution in Action Pack     (CVE-2021-22885)
    * tfm-rubygem-actionpack: rails: Possible Denial of Service vulnerability in Action Dispatch     (CVE-2021-22902)
    * tfm-rubygem-actionpack: Possible DoS Vulnerability in Action Controller Token Authentication     (CVE-2021-22904)
    * python-django: potential directory-traversal via uploaded files (CVE-2021-28658)
    * tfm-rubygem-puma: incomplete fix for CVE-2019-16770 allows Denial of Service (DoS) (CVE-2021-29509)
    * python-django: Potential directory-traversal via uploaded files (CVE-2021-31542)
    * tfm-rubygem-addressable: ReDoS in templates (CVE-2021-32740)
    * python-django: Potential directory traversal via ``admindocs`` (CVE-2021-33203)
    * python-urllib3: ReDoS in the parsing of authority part of URL (CVE-2021-33503)
    * python-django: Possible indeterminate SSRF, RFI, and LFI attacks since validators accepted leading zeros     in IPv4 addresses (CVE-2021-33571)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS     score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE     page(s) listed in the References section.

    Additional Changes:

    * Updated Content Management backend with Pulp 3 for increased performance, scale and reliability. MongoDB     is also removed from Satellite
    * Adds support for Azure GovCloud
    * Provides Satellite 6.10 Server support for Satellite 6.9 Capsules
    * Improves support for Satellite Air Gapped and Disconnected environments
    * Adds Ansible Collections content type to support disconnected environments
    * Foreman_webhooks introduced to replace foreman_hooks
    * Introduces UI to manage Personal Access Tokens
    * Adds ability to configure Pulp repository synchronization timeouts
    * Support for Convert2RHEL
    * Provides advanced options when registering a host
    * Supports remediation playbook signatures from console.redhat.com
    * Red Hat Insights Plugin replaced through new integration within Satellite
    * Ability to visually represent systems registered and in sync with Insights
    * Ability to verify if required packages are installed as part of pre-upgrade check
    * Ability to unset environment variables when installer is running
    * Ability to turn backups on and off when cleaning up tasks from database

    The items above are not a complete list of changes. This update also fixes     several bugs and adds various enhancements. Documentation for these changes     is available from the Release Notes document linked to in the References     section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Ruby on Rails blog :

Rails versions 6.1.3.2, 6.0.3.7, and 5.2.6 have been released! These releases contain important security fixes. Here is a list of the issues fixed :

CVE-2021-22885: Possible Information Disclosure / Unintended Method Execution in Action Pack

CVE-2021-22902: Possible Denial of Service vulnerability in Action Dispatch

CVE-2021-22903: Possible Open Redirect Vulnerability in Action Pack

CVE-2021-22904: Possible DoS Vulnerability in Action Controller Token Authentication

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
256829	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2021-22902	Nessus	Misc.	high
415007	SCA: security update for actionpack (GHSA-g8ww-46x2-2p65)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	high
415007	SCA: security update for actionpack (GHSA-g8ww-46x2-2p65)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	high
155377	RHEL 7 : Satellite 6.10 Release (Moderate) (RHSA-2021:4702)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
149360	FreeBSD : Rails -- multiple vulnerabilities (f7a00ad7-ae75-11eb-8113-08002728f74c)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	high

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