The remote Debian 11 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5372 advisory.

  - A possible open redirect vulnerability in the Host Authorization middleware in Action Pack >= 6.0.0 that     could allow attackers to redirect users to a malicious website. (CVE-2021-22942)

  - A open redirect vulnerability exists in Action Pack >= 6.0.0 that could allow an attacker to craft a     X-Forwarded-Host headers in combination with certain allowed host formats can cause the Host     Authorization middleware in Action Pack to redirect users to a malicious website. (CVE-2021-44528)

  - A code injection vulnerability exists in the Active Storage >= v5.2.0 that could allow an attacker to     execute code via image_processing arguments. (CVE-2022-21831)

  - An XSS Vulnerability in Action Pack >= 5.2.0 and < 5.2.0 that could allow an attacker to bypass CSP for     non HTML like responses. (CVE-2022-22577)

  - Action Pack is a framework for handling and responding to web requests. Under certain circumstances     response bodies will not be closed. In the event a response is *not* notified of a `close`,     `ActionDispatch::Executor` will not know to reset thread local state for the next request. This can lead     to data being leaked to subsequent requests.This has been fixed in Rails 7.0.2.1, 6.1.4.5, 6.0.4.5, and     5.2.6.1. Upgrading is highly recommended, but to work around this problem a middleware described in GHSA-     wh98-p28r-vrc9 can be used. (CVE-2022-23633)

  - A XSS Vulnerability in Action View tag helpers >= 5.2.0 and < 5.2.0 which would allow an attacker to     inject content if able to control input into specific attributes. (CVE-2022-27777)

  - A regular expression based DoS vulnerability in Action Dispatch <6.0.6.1,< 6.1.7.1, and <7.0.4.1.
    Specially crafted cookies, in combination with a specially crafted X_FORWARDED_HOST header can cause the     regular expression engine to enter a state of catastrophic backtracking. This can cause the process to use     large amounts of CPU and memory, leading to a possible DoS vulnerability All users running an affected     release should either upgrade or use one of the workarounds immediately. (CVE-2023-22792)

  - A vulnerability in ActiveRecord <6.0.6.1, v6.1.7.1 and v7.0.4.1 related to the sanitization of comments.
    If malicious user input is passed to either the `annotate` query method, the `optimizer_hints` query     method, or through the QueryLogs interface which automatically adds annotations, it may be sent to the     database withinsufficient sanitization and be able to inject SQL outside of the comment. (CVE-2023-22794)

  - A regular expression based DoS vulnerability in Action Dispatch <6.1.7.1 and <7.0.4.1 related to the If-     None-Match header. A specially crafted HTTP If-None-Match header can cause the regular expression engine     to enter a state of catastrophic backtracking, when on a version of Ruby below 3.2.0. This can cause the     process to use large amounts of CPU and memory, leading to a possible DoS vulnerability All users running     an affected release should either upgrade or use one of the workarounds immediately. (CVE-2023-22795)

  - A regular expression based DoS vulnerability in Active Support <6.1.7.1 and <7.0.4.1. A specially crafted     string passed to the underscore method can cause the regular expression engine to enter a state of     catastrophic backtracking. This can cause the process to use large amounts of CPU and memory, leading to a     possible DoS vulnerability. (CVE-2023-22796)

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

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