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SUSE SLES15: ruby2.5-rubygem-kramdown / ruby2.5-rubygem-kramdown-doc / etc (SUSE-SU-2022:3259-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 164981

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:3259-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2020-14001: Fixed processing template options inside documents allowing unintended read access or embedded Ruby code execution (bsc#1174297).

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.

Solution

Update the affected ruby2.5-rubygem-kramdown, ruby2.5-rubygem-kramdown-doc and / or ruby2.5-rubygem-kramdown-testsuite packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1174297

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14001

http://www.nessus.org/u?f3be7a21

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 164981

File Name: suse_SU-2022-3259-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/13/2022

Updated: 6/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-14001

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ruby2.5-rubygem-kramdown, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/12/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/17/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-14001

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:3259-1