RHCOS 6 : rubygem-activesupport (RHSA-2013:0202)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 311963

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat CoreOS host is missing a security update for rubygem-activesupport.

Description

The remote Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 6 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2013:0202 advisory.

- rubygem-activesupport: json to yaml parsing (CVE-2013-0333)

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

Solution

Update the RHCOS rubygem-activesupport package based on the guidance in RHSA-2013:0202.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 311963

File Name: rhcos-RHSA-2013-0202.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/4/2026

Updated: 5/5/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-0333

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6:coreos, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-activesupport

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/28/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/28/2013

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Ruby on Rails JSON Processor YAML Deserialization Code Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-0333

CWE: 502

RHSA: 2013:0202

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