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Alpine: multiple ruby packages: security update to 3.0.3-r0
critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 424435
Description
There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:- CGI.escape_html in Ruby before 2.7.5 and 3.x before 3.0.3 has an integer overflow and resultant buffer
overflow via a long string on platforms (such as Windows) where size_t and long have different numbers of
bytes. This also affects the CGI gem before 0.3.1 for Ruby. (CVE-2021-41816)
- Date.parse in the date gem through 3.2.0 for Ruby allows ReDoS (regular expression Denial of Service) via
a long string. The fixed versions are 3.2.1, 3.1.2, 3.0.2, and 2.0.1. (CVE-2021-41817)
- CGI::Cookie.parse in Ruby through 2.6.8 mishandles security prefixes in cookie names. This also affects
the CGI gem through 0.3.0 for Ruby. (CVE-2021-41819)
See Also
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2021-41816
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 424435
Version: Revision 1.8
Type: Local
Published: 4/4/2025
Updated: 7/2/2026
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.9
Percentile: 57.12
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 5.9
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-41816
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 9.8
Temporal Score: 8.8
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/16/2021