CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
AI Score
Confidence
High
The version of ruby installed on the remote host is prior to 2.0.0.648-36. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2024-2637 advisory.
A flaw was found in the way the Ruby REXML library parsed XML documents. Parsing a specially crafted XML document using REXML and writing parsed data back to a new XML document results in creating a document with a different structure. This issue could affect the integrity of processed data in applications using REXML that parse XML documents, write data back to XML, and re-parse them again. (CVE-2021-28965)
ruby: Arbitrary memory address read vulnerability with Regex search (CVE-2024-27282)
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory ALAS-2024-2637.
##
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(207407);
script_version("1.1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/09/18");
script_cve_id("CVE-2021-28965", "CVE-2024-27282");
script_name(english:"Amazon Linux 2 : ruby (ALAS-2024-2637)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The version of ruby installed on the remote host is prior to 2.0.0.648-36. It is, therefore, affected by multiple
vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2024-2637 advisory.
A flaw was found in the way the Ruby REXML library parsed XML documents. Parsing a specially crafted XML
document using REXML and writing parsed data back to a new XML document results in creating a document
with a different structure. This issue could affect the integrity of processed data in applications using
REXML that parse XML documents, write data back to XML, and re-parse them again. (CVE-2021-28965)
ruby: Arbitrary memory address read vulnerability with Regex search (CVE-2024-27282)
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2024-2637.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-28965.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-27282.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Run 'yum update ruby' to update your system.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2021-28965");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2021/04/21");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2024/09/12");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2024/09/18");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ruby");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ruby-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ruby-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ruby-doc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ruby-irb");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ruby-libs");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ruby-tcltk");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygem-bigdecimal");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygem-io-console");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygem-json");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygem-minitest");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygem-psych");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygem-rake");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygem-rdoc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygems");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:rubygems-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/AmazonLinux/release", "Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var alas_release = get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/release");
if (isnull(alas_release) || !strlen(alas_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux");
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^AL(A|\d+|-\d+)", string:alas_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (os_ver != "2")
{
if (os_ver == 'A') os_ver = 'AMI';
audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux 2", "Amazon Linux " + os_ver);
}
if (!get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var pkgs = [
{'reference':'ruby-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.12', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'ruby-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.12', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'ruby-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.12', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'ruby-debuginfo-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.12', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'ruby-debuginfo-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.12', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'ruby-debuginfo-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.12', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'ruby-devel-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.12', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'ruby-devel-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.12', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'ruby-devel-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.12', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'ruby-doc-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.12', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'ruby-irb-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.12', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'ruby-libs-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.12', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'ruby-libs-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.12', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'ruby-libs-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.12', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'ruby-tcltk-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.12', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'ruby-tcltk-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.12', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'ruby-tcltk-2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.12', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'rubygem-bigdecimal-1.2.0-36.amzn2.0.12', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'rubygem-bigdecimal-1.2.0-36.amzn2.0.12', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'rubygem-bigdecimal-1.2.0-36.amzn2.0.12', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'rubygem-io-console-0.4.2-36.amzn2.0.12', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'rubygem-io-console-0.4.2-36.amzn2.0.12', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'rubygem-io-console-0.4.2-36.amzn2.0.12', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'rubygem-json-1.7.7-36.amzn2.0.12', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'rubygem-json-1.7.7-36.amzn2.0.12', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'rubygem-json-1.7.7-36.amzn2.0.12', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'rubygem-minitest-4.3.2-36.amzn2.0.12', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'rubygem-psych-2.0.0-36.amzn2.0.12', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'rubygem-psych-2.0.0-36.amzn2.0.12', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'rubygem-psych-2.0.0-36.amzn2.0.12', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'rubygem-rake-0.9.6-36.amzn2.0.12', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'rubygem-rdoc-4.0.0-36.amzn2.0.12', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'rubygems-2.0.14.1-36.amzn2.0.12', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'rubygems-devel-2.0.14.1-36.amzn2.0.12', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
];
var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
var reference = NULL;
var _release = NULL;
var sp = NULL;
var _cpu = NULL;
var el_string = NULL;
var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
var epoch = NULL;
var allowmaj = NULL;
var exists_check = NULL;
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = package_array['release'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['sp'])) sp = package_array['sp'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cpu'])) _cpu = package_array['cpu'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['el_string'])) el_string = package_array['el_string'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['epoch'])) epoch = package_array['epoch'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = package_array['allowmaj'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['exists_check'])) exists_check = package_array['exists_check'];
if (reference && _release && (!exists_check || rpm_exists(release:_release, rpm:exists_check))) {
if (rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj)) flag++;
}
}
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : rpm_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
var tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "ruby / ruby-debuginfo / ruby-devel / etc");
}
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
AI Score
Confidence
High