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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Sidekiq vulnerabilities (USN-7695-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 252278

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7695-1 advisory.

 Anas Roubi discovered that Sidekiq did not correctly sanitize certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-30151)

 It was discovered that Sidekiq did not correctly bound certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-23837)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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 ruby-sidekiq package.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7695-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 252278

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7695-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 8/19/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-30151

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ruby-sidekiq, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/14/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/6/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-30151, CVE-2022-23837

USN: 7695-1