RHEL 9 : ruby:4.0 (RHSA-2026:20596)

high Nessus Plugin ID 316780

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for ruby:4.0.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:20596 advisory.

Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to perform system management tasks.

Security Fix(es):

* ruby/json: Ruby JSON: Denial of Service or Information Disclosure via format string injection (CVE-2026-33210)

* erb: ERB: Arbitrary code execution via deserialization bypass (CVE-2026-41316)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 RHEL ruby:4.0 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:20596.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 316780

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-20596.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/26/2026

Updated: 5/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-33210

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.3

Threat Score: 4.8

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-mysql2-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-typeprof, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-json, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-rdoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-bundler, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-racc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-io-console, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-psych, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-rbs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-minitest, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-bundled-gems, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-irb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-rss, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-bigdecimal, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygems-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-mysql2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-pg, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-power_assert, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygems, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-default-gems, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-test-unit, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-pg-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-rake, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rubygem-rexml

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: 5/26/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/19/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-33210, CVE-2026-41316

CWE: 134, 502

RHSA: 2026:20596

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