Rails is a web-application framework. Starting in version 7.1.0, there is a possible ReDoS vulnerability in the Accept header parsing routines of Action Dispatch. This vulnerability is patched in 7.1.3.1. Ruby 3.2 has mitigations for this problem, so Rails applications using Ruby 3.2 or newer are unaffected.

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

  - Rails is a web-application framework. Starting in version 7.1.0, there is a possible ReDoS vulnerability     in the Accept header parsing routines of Action Dispatch. This vulnerability is patched in 7.1.3.1. Ruby     3.2 has mitigations for this problem, so Rails applications using Ruby 3.2 or newer are unaffected.
    (CVE-2024-26142)

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

An update of the rubygem package has been released.

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

  - Rails is a web-application framework. Starting in version 7.1.0, there is a possible ReDoS vulnerability
    in the Accept header parsing routines of Action Dispatch. This vulnerability is patched in 7.1.3.1. Ruby
    3.2 has mitigations for this problem, so Rails applications using Ruby 3.2 or newer are unaffected.
    (CVE-2024-26142)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
250826	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-26142	Nessus	Misc.	high
232337	Photon OS 4.0: Rubygem PHSA-2025-4.0-0765	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	medium
416427	SCA: security update for actionpack (GHSA-jjhx-jhvp-74wq)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	high
416427	SCA: security update for actionpack (GHSA-jjhx-jhvp-74wq)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2024-26142

high

Tenable Plugins

high

medium

high

high