There is a potential DOM based cross-site scripting issue in rails-ujs which leverages the Clipboard API to target HTML elements that are assigned the contenteditable attribute. This has the potential to occur when pasting malicious HTML content from the clipboard that includes a data-method, data-remote or data-disable-with attribute.

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

  - There is a potential DOM based cross-site scripting issue in rails-ujs which leverages the Clipboard API     to target HTML elements that are assigned the contenteditable attribute. This has the potential to occur     when pasting malicious HTML content from the clipboard that includes a data-method, data-remote or data-     disable-with attribute. (CVE-2023-23913)

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:

  - There is a potential DOM based cross-site scripting issue in rails-ujs which leverages the Clipboard API
    to target HTML elements that are assigned the contenteditable attribute. This has the potential to occur
    when pasting malicious HTML content from the clipboard that includes a data-method, data-remote or data-
    disable-with attribute. (CVE-2023-23913)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3813-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2023-23913: Fixed DOM Based Cross-site Scripting in rails-ujs (bsc#1209826).

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

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

The remote Debian 11 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5389 advisory.

    Two vulnerabilities were discovered in rails, the Ruby based server-side MVC web application framework,     which could lead to XSS and DOM based cross-site scripting (CRS). This update also fixes a regression     introduced in previous update that may block certain access for applications using development     environment. For the stable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version     2:6.0.3.7+dfsg-2+deb11u2. 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	Type	Severity
256748	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-23913	Nessus	Misc.	Local	medium
420595	SCA: security update for actionview (GHSA-xp5h-f8jf-rc8q)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	medium
420595	SCA: security update for actionview (GHSA-xp5h-f8jf-rc8q)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	medium
182104	SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : rubygem-actionview-5_1 (SUSE-SU-2023:3813-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	medium
174384	Debian DSA-5389-1 : rails - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	Local	medium

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