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AlmaLinux 8 : ruby:3.3 (ALSA-2025:10217)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 241317

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2025:10217 advisory.

 * net-imap: Net::IMAP vulnerable to possible DoS by memory exhaustion (CVE-2025-25186)
 * CGI: Denial of Service in CGI::Cookie.parse (CVE-2025-27219)
 * uri: userinfo leakage in URI#join, URI#merge and URI#+ (CVE-2025-27221)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux 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 packages.

See Also

https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2025-10217.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10217

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 241317

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2025-10217.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 7/3/2025

Updated: 7/3/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-27221

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:L/I:N/A:N

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Threat Score: 1.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-27219

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-test-unit, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-bigdecimal, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-rake, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::appstream, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-rbs, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:ruby-doc, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-abrt, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:ruby-bundled-gems, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-json, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-typeprof, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-rdoc, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-power_assert, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-irb, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-bundler, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-rss, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::nfv, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::powertools, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-pg, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-mysql2-doc, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:ruby-libs, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-psych, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygems, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::supplementary, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-minitest, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-io-console, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-pg-doc, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::sap_hana, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::realtime, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-racc, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::highavailability, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:ruby-default-gems, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::resilientstorage, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::baseos, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:ruby-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-mysql2, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::sap, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:ruby, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-rexml, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygems-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:rubygem-abrt-doc

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/2/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/10/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-25186, CVE-2025-27219, CVE-2025-27221

CWE: 1287, 212, 400, 405, 409, 770, 789

RHSA: 2025:10217