Debian dsa-5635 : yard - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 191531

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The remote Debian 11 / 12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dsa-5635 advisory.

- YARD is a Ruby Documentation tool. The frames.html file within the Yard Doc's generated documentation is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks due to inadequate sanitization of user input within the JavaScript segment of the frames.erb template file. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.9.36.
(CVE-2024-27285)

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

Solution

Upgrade the yard packages.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/yard

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-27285

https://packages.debian.org/source/bookworm/yard

https://packages.debian.org/source/bullseye/yard

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 191531

File Name: debian_DSA-5635.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/5/2024

Updated: 3/5/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-27285

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:yard, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:yard-doc, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/4/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/28/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-27285