A possible open redirect vulnerability in the Host Authorization middleware in Action Pack >= 6.0.0 that could allow attackers to redirect users to a malicious website.

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

  - A possible open redirect vulnerability in the Host Authorization middleware in Action Pack >= 6.0.0 that     could allow attackers to redirect users to a malicious website. (CVE-2021-22942)

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:

  - A possible open redirect vulnerability in the Host Authorization middleware in Action Pack >= 6.0.0 that
    could allow attackers to redirect users to a malicious website. (CVE-2021-22942)

The remote Debian 11 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5372 advisory.

    Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in rails, the Ruby based server-side MVC web application     framework, which could result in XSS, data disclosure and open redirect. For the stable distribution     (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 2:6.0.3.7+dfsg-2+deb11u1. We recommend that you     upgrade your rails packages. For the detailed security status of rails please refer to its security     tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/rails

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian security advisory.

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
255427	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2021-22942	Nessus	Misc.	medium
409085	SCA: security update for actionpack (GHSA-2rqw-v265-jf8c)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
409085	SCA: security update for actionpack (GHSA-2rqw-v265-jf8c)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium
172505	Debian DSA-5372-1 : rails - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical

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