It was discovered that there was a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in ruby-gon, a Ruby library to send/convert data to JavaScript from a Ruby application.
For Debian 9 ‘Stretch’, this problem has been fixed in version 6.1.0-1+deb9u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your ruby-gon packages.
For the detailed security status of ruby-gon please refer to its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/ruby-gon
NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DLA-2380-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(140806);
script_version("1.4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/02/20");
script_cve_id("CVE-2020-25739");
script_name(english:"Debian DLA-2380-1 : ruby-gon security update");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Debian host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"It was discovered that there was a cross-site scripting (XSS)
vulnerability in ruby-gon, a Ruby library to send/convert data to
JavaScript from a Ruby application.
For Debian 9 'Stretch', this problem has been fixed in version
6.1.0-1+deb9u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your ruby-gon packages.
For the detailed security status of ruby-gon please refer to its
security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/ruby-gon
NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description
block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted
to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without
introducing additional issues.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00018.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/ruby-gon");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/ruby-gon");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade the affected ruby-gon package.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/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:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/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-2020-25739");
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:"2020/09/23");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/09/26");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/09/28");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ruby-gon");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2020-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"ruby-gon", reference:"6.1.0-1+deb9u1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
debian | debian_linux | ruby-gon | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ruby-gon |
debian | debian_linux | 9.0 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0 |