7.5 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.973 High
EPSS
Percentile
99.9%
It was discovered that Rails, the Ruby web application development framework, performed insufficient validation on input parameters, allowing unintended type conversions. An attacker may use this to bypass authentication systems, inject arbitrary SQL, inject and execute arbitrary code, or perform a DoS attack on the application.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-2604. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(63457);
script_version("1.13");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2013-0156");
script_bugtraq_id(57187);
script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"2604");
script_name(english:"Debian DSA-2604-1 : rails - insufficient input validation");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"It was discovered that Rails, the Ruby web application development
framework, performed insufficient validation on input parameters,
allowing unintended type conversions. An attacker may use this to
bypass authentication systems, inject arbitrary SQL, inject and
execute arbitrary code, or perform a DoS attack on the application."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=697722"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/rails"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2604"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Upgrade the rails packages.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3.5-1.2+squeeze4.1."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"metasploit_name", value:'Ruby on Rails XML Processor YAML Deserialization Code Execution');
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_metasploit", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rails");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2013/01/09");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2013/01/10");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
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:"6.0", prefix:"libactionmailer-ruby", reference:"2.3.5-1.2+squeeze4.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libactionmailer-ruby1.8", reference:"2.3.5-1.2+squeeze4.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libactionpack-ruby", reference:"2.3.5-1.2+squeeze4.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libactionpack-ruby1.8", reference:"2.3.5-1.2+squeeze4.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libactiverecord-ruby", reference:"2.3.5-1.2+squeeze4.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libactiverecord-ruby1.8", reference:"2.3.5-1.2+squeeze4.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libactiverecord-ruby1.9.1", reference:"2.3.5-1.2+squeeze4.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libactiveresource-ruby", reference:"2.3.5-1.2+squeeze4.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libactiveresource-ruby1.8", reference:"2.3.5-1.2+squeeze4.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libactivesupport-ruby", reference:"2.3.5-1.2+squeeze4.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libactivesupport-ruby1.8", reference:"2.3.5-1.2+squeeze4.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libactivesupport-ruby1.9.1", reference:"2.3.5-1.2+squeeze4.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"rails", reference:"2.3.5-1.2+squeeze4.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"rails-doc", reference:"2.3.5-1.2+squeeze4.1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"rails-ruby1.8", reference:"2.3.5-1.2+squeeze4.1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
else security_hole(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
debian | debian_linux | rails | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rails |
debian | debian_linux | 6.0 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0 |