ActiveSupport::EncryptedFile writes contents that will be encrypted to a temporary file. The temporary file's permissions are defaulted to the user's current `umask` settings, meaning that it's possible for other users on the same system to read the contents of the temporary file. Attackers that have access to the file system could possibly read the contents of this temporary file while a user is editing it. All users running an affected release should either upgrade or use one of the workarounds immediately.

The remote Debian 11 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-4383 advisory.

    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------     Debian LTS Advisory DLA-4383-1                debian-lts@lists.debian.org     https://www.debian.org/lts/security/                   Bastien Roucaris     November 25, 2025                             https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
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    Package        : rails     Version        : 2:6.0.3.7+dfsg-2+deb11u3     CVE ID         : CVE-2022-44566 CVE-2023-28362 CVE-2023-38037 CVE-2024-41128                      CVE-2024-47887 CVE-2024-47888 CVE-2024-47889 CVE-2024-54133     Debian Bug     : 1030050 1051057 1051058 1085376 1089755

    rails a popular server side application framework was affected by multiple     vulnerabilities.

    CVE-2022-44566

        Given a value outside the range for a 64bit signed integer type         PostgreSQL will treat the column type as numeric. Comparing         integer values against numeric values can result in a slow         sequential scan.
        This behavior is configurable via         ActiveRecord::Base.raise_int_wider_than_64bit which         defaults to true.

    CVE-2023-28362

        The redirect_to method in Rails allows provided values         to contain characters which are not legal in an HTTP header         value. This results in the potential for downstream services         which enforce RFC compliance on HTTP response headers to remove         the assigned Location header.

    CVE-2023-38037

        ActiveSupport::EncryptedFile writes contents that will be         encrypted to a temporary file. The temporary file's permissions         are defaulted to the user's current `umask` settings, meaning         that it's possible for other users on the same system to read         the contents of the temporary file. Attackers that have access         to the file system could possibly read the contents of this         temporary file while a user is editing it

    CVE-2024-41128

        Action Pack is a framework for handling and responding         to web requests. There is a possible ReDoS vulnerability in         the query parameter filtering routines of Action Dispatch.
        Carefully crafted query parameters can cause query parameter         filtering to take an unexpected amount of time, possibly         resulting in a DoS vulnerability.

    CVE-2024-47887

        Action Pack is a framework for handling and responding         to web requests. There is a possible ReDoS vulnerability in         Action Controller's HTTP Token authentication.
        For applications using HTTP Token authentication via         `authenticate_or_request_with_http_token` or similar,         a carefully crafted header may cause header parsing         to take an unexpected amount of time, possibly resulting         in a DoS vulnerability

    CVE-2024-47888

        Action Text brings rich text content and editing to Rails.
        There is a possible ReDoS vulnerability in the         `plain_text_for_blockquote_node helper` in Action Text.
        Carefully crafted text can cause the `plain_text_for_blockquote_node`         helper to take an unexpected amount of time,         possibly resulting in a DoS vulnerability.

    CVE-2024-47889

        Action Mailer is a framework for designing email service layers.
        There is a possible ReDoS vulnerability in the block_format helper         in Action Mailer. Carefully crafted text can cause the block_format         helper to take an unexpected amount of time, possibly         resulting in a DoS vulnerability.

    CVE-2024-54133

        Action Pack is a framework for handling and responding         to web requests. There is a possible Cross Site Scripting (XSS)         vulnerability in the `content_security_policy` helper.
        Applications which set Content-Security-Policy (CSP) headers dynamically         from untrusted user input may be vulnerable to carefully crafted         inputs being able to inject new directives into the CSP.
        This could lead to a bypass of the CSP and its protection         against XSS and other attacks

    For Debian 11 bullseye, these problems have been fixed in version     2:6.0.3.7+dfsg-2+deb11u3.

    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

    Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply     these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be     found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

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.

The remote Debian 12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5881 advisory.

    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------     Debian Security Advisory DSA-5881-1                   security@debian.org     https://www.debian.org/security/                       Moritz Muehlenhoff     March 17, 2025                        https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package        : rails     CVE ID         : CVE-2023-28362 CVE-2023-38037 CVE-2024-26144 CVE-2024-28103                      CVE-2024-41128 CVE-2024-47887 CVE-2024-47888 CVE-2024-47889                      CVE-2024-54133

    Multiple security issues were discovered in the Rails web framework     which could result cross-site scripting, information disclosure, denial     of service or bypass of content security policies.

    For the stable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed in     version 2:6.1.7.10+dfsg-1~deb12u1.

    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

    Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply     these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be     found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

    Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

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.

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

  - ActiveSupport::EncryptedFile writes contents that will be encrypted to a temporary file. The temporary     file's permissions are defaulted to the user's current `umask` settings, meaning that it's possible for     other users on the same system to read the contents of the temporary file. Attackers that have access to     the file system could possibly read the contents of this temporary file while a user is editing it. All     users running an affected release should either upgrade or use one of the workarounds immediately.
    (CVE-2023-38037)

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:

  - ActiveSupport::EncryptedFile writes contents that will be encrypted to a temporary file. The temporary
    file's permissions are defaulted to the user's current `umask` settings, meaning that it's possible for
    other users on the same system to read the contents of the temporary file. Attackers that have access to
    the file system could possibly read the contents of this temporary file while a user is editing it. All
    users running an affected release should either upgrade or use one of the workarounds immediately.
    (CVE-2023-38037)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:2010 advisory.

    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.

    Security fixes:
    * python-pygments: ReDoS in pygments (CVE-2022-40896)
    * python-pycryptodomex: Side-channel leakage for OAEP decryption in PyCryptodome and pycryptodomex     (CVE-2023-52323)
    * satellite: Arithmetic overflow in satellite (CVE-2023-4320)
    * automation-hub: Ansible Automation Hub: insecure galaxy-importer tarfile extraction (CVE-2023-5189)
    * jetty: Improper addition of quotation marks to user inputs in CgiServlet (CVE-2023-36479)
    * python-aiohttp: HTTP request smuggling via llhttp HTTP request parser (CVE-2023-37276)
    * rubygem-activesupport: File Disclosure of Locally Encrypted Files (CVE-2023-38037)
    * jetty: Improper validation of HTTP/1 content-length (CVE-2023-40167)
    * python-django: Potential denial of service vulnerability in `django.utils.encoding.uri_to_iri()`     (CVE-2023-41164)
    * python-django: Denial-of-service possibility in django.utils.text.Truncator (CVE-2023-43665)
    * python-aiohttp: Numerous issues in HTTP parser with header parsing (CVE-2023-47627)
    * python-aiohttp: HTTP request modification (CVE-2023-49081)
    * python-aiohttp: CRLF injection if user controls the HTTP method using aiohttp client (CVE-2023-49082)
    * rubygem-puma: HTTP request smuggling when parsing chunked Transfer-Encoding Bodies (CVE-2024-21647)
    * rubygem-audited: Race condition can lead to audit logs being incorrectly attributed to the wrong user     (CVE-2024-22047)
    * python-jinja2: HTML attribute injection when passing user input as keys to xmlattr filter     (CVE-2024-22195)
    * python-aiohttp: Follow_symlinks directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2024-23334)
    * python-aiohttp: HTTP request smuggling (CVE-2024-23829)

    Additional 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.

The remote openSUSE 15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2023:0350-1 advisory.

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
276881	Debian dla-4383 : rails - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	Local	high
232892	Debian dsa-5881 : rails - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	Local	high
232134	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-38037	Nessus	Misc.	Local	medium
414054	SCA: security update for activesupport (GHSA-cr5q-6q9f-rq6q)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	medium
414054	SCA: security update for activesupport (GHSA-cr5q-6q9f-rq6q)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	medium
199805	RHEL 8 : Satellite 6.15.0 (Important) (RHSA-2024:2010)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	Local	high
184436	openSUSE 15 Security Update : rubygem-activesupport-5.2 (openSUSE-SU-2023:0350-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	medium

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