RHCOS 6 : ruby193-rubygem-activerecord (RHSA-2013:0699)

high Nessus Plugin ID 311974

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat CoreOS host is missing a security update for ruby193-rubygem-activerecord.

Description

The remote Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2013:0699 advisory.

- rubygem-activerecord: attribute_dos Symbol DoS vulnerability (CVE-2013-1854)

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 ruby193-rubygem-activerecord package based on the guidance in RHSA-2013:0699.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=921329

http://www.nessus.org/u?5ff3caae

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:0699

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 311974

File Name: rhcos-RHSA-2013-0699.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/4/2026

Updated: 5/4/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-1854

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-rubygem-activerecord-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby193-rubygem-activerecord, 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: 4/2/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/18/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1854

CWE: 400

RHSA: 2013:0699