SUSE SLES15: ruby2.5-rubygem-rack / ruby2.5-rubygem-rack-doc / etc (SUSE-SU-2022:3347-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 165418

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:3347-1 advisory.

- CVE-2020-8184: Fixed vulnerability where percent-encoded cookies can be used to overwrite existing prefixed cookie names (bsc#1173351).
- CVE-2020-8161: Fixed directory traversal in Rack:Directory (bsc#1172037).

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

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

Solution

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 165418

File Name: suse_SU-2022-3347-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 9/24/2022

Updated: 6/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

Percentile: 51.17

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8184

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8161

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/23/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/4/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-8161, CVE-2020-8184

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:3347-1

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