RHCOS 1 : rubygems (RHSA-2013:1203)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 311958

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat CoreOS host is missing one or more security updates for rubygems.

Description

The remote Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 1 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2013:1203 advisory.

- rubygems: Two security fixes in v1.8.23 (CVE-2012-2125, CVE-2012-2126)

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 RHCOS rubygems package based on the guidance in RHSA-2013:1203.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 311958

File Name: rhcos-RHSA-2013-1203.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/4/2026

Updated: 5/4/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.1

Percentile: 6.91

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-2125

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:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygems, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6:coreos

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/4/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/20/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2125, CVE-2012-2126

RHSA: 2013:1203

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