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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-28755

medium Nessus Plugin ID 225915

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - A ReDoS issue was discovered in the URI component through 0.12.0 in Ruby through 3.2.1. The URI parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters. It causes an increase in execution time for parsing strings to URI objects. The fixed versions are 0.12.1, 0.11.1, 0.10.2 and 0.10.0.1. (CVE-2023-28755)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2023-28755

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-28755

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-28755

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 225915

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2023_28755.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/5/2025

Updated: 9/1/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-28755

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-irb, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:rubygems, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ruby-devel, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ruby-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rubygems, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-json, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:jruby, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-rdoc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rubygem-bigdecimal, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-io-console, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-psych, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-minitest, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rubygem-rake, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rubygem-psych, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rubygem-rdoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rubygem-json, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-bigdecimal, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ruby-irb, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rubygem-minitest, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygems-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rubygems-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygems, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:jruby, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ruby-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-rake, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:rubygem-io-console, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ruby, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rubygems, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ruby3.1

Required KB Items: Host/OS/identifier, Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/30/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-28755