Juho Nurminen reports :
When parsing and serializing a crafted XML document, REXML gem (including the one bundled with Ruby) can create a wrong XML document whose structure is different from the original one. The impact of this issue highly depends on context, but it may lead to a vulnerability in some programs that are using REXML.
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include("compat.inc");
if (description)
{
script_id(148525);
script_version("1.3");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/05/03");
script_cve_id("CVE-2021-28965");
script_name(english:"FreeBSD : ruby -- XML round-trip vulnerability in REXML (dec7e4b6-961a-11eb-9c34-080027f515ea)");
script_summary(english:"Checks for updated packages in pkg_info output");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:
"The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related
updates."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Juho Nurminen reports :
When parsing and serializing a crafted XML document, REXML gem
(including the one bundled with Ruby) can create a wrong XML document
whose structure is different from the original one. The impact of this
issue highly depends on context, but it may lead to a vulnerability in
some programs that are using REXML."
);
# https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2021/04/05/xml-round-trip-vulnerability-in-rexml-cve-2021-28965/
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?c44311ba"
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# https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/dec7e4b6-961a-11eb-9c34-080027f515ea.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?afc33e7d"
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script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
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:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ruby");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:rubygem-rexml");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2021/04/05");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2021/04/05");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2021/04/14");
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script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("freebsd_package.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"ruby>=2.5.0,1<2.5.9,1")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"ruby>=2.6.0,1<2.6.7,1")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"ruby>=2.7.0,1<2.7.3,1")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"ruby>=3.0.0.p1,1<3.0.1,1")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"rubygem-rexml<3.2.5")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");