An XML External Entity (XXE) issue was discovered in Python through 3.9.1. The plistlib module no longer accepts entity declarations in XML plist files to avoid XML vulnerabilities.

An update of the python3 package has been released.

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6891-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2015-20107)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly used regular expressions vulnerable to catastrophic     backtracking. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue     only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-1060, CVE-2018-1061)

    It was discovered that Python failed to initialize Expats hash salt. A remote attacker could possibly     use this issue to cause hash collisions, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu     14.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-14647)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain pickle files. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to consume memory, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2018-20406)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly validated the domain when handling cookies. An attacker could     possibly trick Python into sending cookies to the wrong domain. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2018-20852)

    Jonathan Birch and Panayiotis Panayiotou discovered that Python incorrectly handled Unicode encoding     during NFKC normalization. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. This     issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-9636, CVE-2019-10160)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly parsed certain email addresses. A remote attacker could possibly     use this issue to trick Python applications into accepting email addresses that should be denied. This     issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-16056)

    It was discovered that the Python documentation XML-RPC server incorrectly handled certain fields. A     remote attacker could use this issue to execute a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. This issue only     affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-16935)

    It was discovered that Python documentation had a misleading information. A security issue could be     possibly caused by wrong assumptions of this information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and     Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-17514)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly stripped certain characters from requests. A remote attacker     could use this issue to perform CRLF injection. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04     LTS. (CVE-2019-18348)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain TAR archives. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2019-20907)

    Colin Read and Nicolas Edet discovered that Python incorrectly handled parsing certain X509 certificates.
    An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Python to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This     issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-5010)

    It was discovered that incorrectly handled certain ZIP files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to     cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-9674)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain urls. A remote attacker could possibly use this     issue to perform CRLF injection attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-9740,     CVE-2019-9947)

    Sihoon Lee discovered that Python incorrectly handled the local_file: scheme. A remote attacker could     possibly use this issue to bypass blocklist meschanisms. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2019-9948)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain IP values. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2020-14422)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain character sequences. A remote attacker could     possibly use this issue to perform CRLF injection. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu     18.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-26116)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2020-27619, CVE-2021-3177)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain HTTP requests. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-8492)

    It was discovered that the Python stdlib ipaddress API incorrectly handled octal strings. A remote     attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a wide variety of attacks, including bypassing certain     access restrictions. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-29921)

    David Schwrer discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to expose sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-3426)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain RFCs. An attacker could possibly use this issue     to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-3733)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain server responses. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-3737)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain FTP requests. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to expose sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04     LTS. (CVE-2021-4189)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2022-0391)

    Devin Jeanpierre discovered that Python incorrectly handled sockets when the multiprocessing module was     being used. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code and escalate     privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-42919)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were     tricked into running a specially crafted input, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a     denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2022-45061, CVE-2023-24329)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain scripts. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to execute arbitrary code or cause a crash. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu     18.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-48560)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain plist files. If a user or an automated system     were tricked into processing a specially crafted plist file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to     consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu     18.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-48564)

    It was discovered that Python did not properly handle XML entity declarations in plist files. An attacker     could possibly use this vulnerability to perform an XML External Entity (XXE) injection, resulting in a     denial of service or information disclosure. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04     LTS. (CVE-2022-48565)

    It was discovered that Python did not properly provide constant-time processing for a crypto operation. An     attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a timing attack and recover sensitive information. This     issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-48566)

    It was discovered that Python instances of ssl.SSLSocket were vulnerable to a bypass of the TLS handshake.
    An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications to treat unauthenticated received data     before TLS handshake as authenticated data after TLS handshake. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS,     Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-40217)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled null bytes when normalizing pathnames. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to bypass certain filename checks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2023-41105)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled privilege with certain parameters. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to maintain the original processes' groups before starting the new process. This     issue only affected Ubuntu 23.10. (CVE-2023-6507)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled symlinks in temp files. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to modify the permissions of files. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04     LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 23.10. (CVE-2023-6597)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain crafted zip files. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to crash the program, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2024-0450)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-2987 advisory.

    - Fix CVE-2021-20095     Resolves: rhbz#1955615
    - Fix CVE-2019-6446
    - Fix CVE-2014-1858, CVE-2014-1859: #1062009, #1062359
    - Security fix for CVE-2022-48560     Resolves: RHEL-16702
    - Fix for CVE-2022-48565     Resolves: RHEL-7088

    python2-rpm-macros     python2-setuptools
    - Fix for CVE-2022-40897     Resolves: RHEL-9763

    python2-six     python-attrs     python-backports     python-backports-ssl_match_hostname     python-chardet
    - Security fix for CVE-2024-22195     Resolves: RHEL-21348
    - Fix CVE-2020-28493: ReDOS vulnerability due to the sub-pattern     Resolves: rhbz#1928707
    - Security fix for CVE-2021-43818     Resolves: rhbz#2032569
    - Security fix for CVE-2021-28957     Resolves: rhbz#1941534
    - Security fix for CVE-2020-27783: mXSS due to the use of improper parser     Resolves: rhbz#1901633
    - Security fix for CVE-2023-32681     Resolves: rhbz#2209469
    - Update to v2.20.0 for CVE-2018-18074.
    - Remove patch for CVE-2015-2296, now included in the upstream release.
    - Backport fix for CVE-2015-2296.
    - Security fix for CVE-2023-43804     Resolves: RHEL-11993
    - Security fix for CVE-2020-26137     Resolves: rhbz#1883890
    - Rebased to 1.24.2 to fix CVE-2019-11324
    - Added patches for CVE-2019-11236 (AKA CVE-2019-9740)
    - Add patch for CVE-2014-9130 (bug 1204829)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle 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.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:2987 advisory.

    Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language that supports modules,     classes, exceptions, high-level dynamic data types, and dynamic typing. The python27 packages provide a     stable release of Python 2.7 with a number of additional utilities and database connectors for MySQL and     PostgreSQL.

    Security Fix(es):

    * pypa-setuptools: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in package_index.py (CVE-2022-40897)

    * python: use after free in heappushpop() of heapq module (CVE-2022-48560)

    * python: XML External Entity in XML processing plistlib module (CVE-2022-48565)

    * python-urllib3: Cookie request header isn't stripped during cross-origin redirects (CVE-2023-43804)

    * jinja2: HTML attribute injection when passing user input as keys to xmlattr filter (CVE-2024-22195)

    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.

    Additional Changes:

    For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10 Release Notes     linked from 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.

The version of F5 Networks BIG-IP installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the K000139691 advisory.

  - An XML External Entity (XXE) issue was discovered in Python through 3.9.1. The plistlib module no longer     accepts entity declarations in XML plist files to avoid XML vulnerabilities. (CVE-2022-48565)

  - Python Software Foundation Python (CPython) version 2.7 contains a CWE-77: Improper Neutralization of     Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection') vulnerability in shutil module (make_archive     function) that can result in Denial of service, Information gain via injection of arbitrary files on the     system or entire drive. This attack appear to be exploitable via Passage of unfiltered user input to the     function. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in after commit     add531a1e55b0a739b0f42582f1c9747e5649ace. (CVE-2018-1000802)

  - An integer overflow during the parsing of XML using the Expat library. This vulnerability affects Firefox     < 50. (CVE-2016-9063)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

According to the versions of the python2 packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - A use-after-free exists in Python through 3.9 via heappushpop in heapq. (CVE-2022-48560)

  - An XML External Entity (XXE) issue was discovered in Python through 3.9.1. The plistlib module no longer     accepts entity declarations in XML plist files to avoid XML vulnerabilities. (CVE-2022-48565)

  - An issue was discovered in compare_digest in Lib/hmac.py in Python through 3.9.1. Constant-time-defeating     optimisations were possible in the accumulator variable in hmac.compare_digest. (CVE-2022-48566)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the versions of the python3 packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - An XML External Entity (XXE) issue was discovered in Python through 3.9.1. The plistlib module no longer     accepts entity declarations in XML plist files to avoid XML vulnerabilities. (CVE-2022-48565)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the versions of the python packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - A use-after-free exists in Python through 3.9 via heappushpop in heapq. (CVE-2022-48560)

  - An XML External Entity (XXE) issue was discovered in Python through 3.9.1. The plistlib module no longer     accepts entity declarations in XML plist files to avoid XML vulnerabilities. (CVE-2022-48565)

  - An issue was discovered in compare_digest in Lib/hmac.py in Python through 3.9.1. Constant-time-defeating     optimisations were possible in the accumulator variable in hmac.compare_digest. (CVE-2022-48566)

  - An issue was discovered in Python before 3.8.18, 3.9.x before 3.9.18, 3.10.x before 3.10.13, and 3.11.x     before 3.11.5. It primarily affects servers (such as HTTP servers) that use TLS client authentication. If     a TLS server-side socket is created, receives data into the socket buffer, and then is closed quickly,     there is a brief window where the SSLSocket instance will detect the socket as 'not connected' and won't     initiate a handshake, but buffered data will still be readable from the socket buffer. This data will not     be authenticated if the server-side TLS peer is expecting client certificate authentication, and is     indistinguishable from valid TLS stream data. Data is limited in size to the amount that will fit in the     buffer. (The TLS connection cannot directly be used for data exfiltration because the vulnerable code path     requires that the connection be closed on initialization of the SSLSocket.) (CVE-2023-40217)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-de99cdb793 advisory.

    Automatic update for python2.7-2.7.18-35.fc40.

    ##### **Changelog**

    ```
    * Fri Oct  6 2023 Lumr Balhar <lbalhar@redhat.com> - 2.7.18-35
    - Fix for CVE-2022-48565     Resolves: rhbz#2240062
    * Fri Oct  6 2023 Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org> - 2.7.18-34
    - Fix C99 build error: declare functions explicitly

    ```

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

According to the versions of the python2 packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - A use-after-free exists in Python through 3.9 via heappushpop in heapq. (CVE-2022-48560)

  - An XML External Entity (XXE) issue was discovered in Python through 3.9.1. The plistlib module no longer     accepts entity declarations in XML plist files to avoid XML vulnerabilities. (CVE-2022-48565)

  - An issue was discovered in compare_digest in Lib/hmac.py in Python through 3.9.1. Constant-time-defeating     optimisations were possible in the accumulator variable in hmac.compare_digest. (CVE-2022-48566)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the versions of the python3 packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - An XML External Entity (XXE) issue was discovered in Python through 3.9.1. The plistlib module no longer     accepts entity declarations in XML plist files to avoid XML vulnerabilities. (CVE-2022-48565)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the versions of the python packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - A use-after-free exists in Python through 3.9 via heappushpop in heapq. (CVE-2022-48560)

  - An XML External Entity (XXE) issue was discovered in Python through 3.9.1. The plistlib module no longer     accepts entity declarations in XML plist files to avoid XML vulnerabilities. (CVE-2022-48565)

  - An issue was discovered in compare_digest in Lib/hmac.py in Python through 3.9.1. Constant-time-defeating     optimisations were possible in the accumulator variable in hmac.compare_digest. (CVE-2022-48566)

  - An issue was discovered in Python before 3.8.18, 3.9.x before 3.9.18, 3.10.x before 3.10.13, and 3.11.x     before 3.11.5. It primarily affects servers (such as HTTP servers) that use TLS client authentication. If     a TLS server-side socket is created, receives data into the socket buffer, and then is closed quickly,     there is a brief window where the SSLSocket instance will detect the socket as 'not connected' and won't     initiate a handshake, but buffered data will still be readable from the socket buffer. This data will not     be authenticated if the server-side TLS peer is expecting client certificate authentication, and is     indistinguishable from valid TLS stream data. Data is limited in size to the amount that will fit in the     buffer. (The TLS connection cannot directly be used for data exfiltration because the vulnerable code path     requires that the connection be closed on initialization of the SSLSocket.) (CVE-2023-40217)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-ea38857cc3 advisory.

    Security fix for CVE-2022-48565.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of python27 installed on the remote host is prior to 2.7.18-2.149. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS-2023-1880 advisory.

    An XML External Entity (XXE) issue was discovered in Python through 3.9.1. The plistlib module no longer     accepts entity declarations in XML plist files to avoid XML vulnerabilities. (CVE-2022-48565)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of python installed on the remote host is prior to 2.7.18-1. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2330 advisory.

    An XML External Entity (XXE) issue was discovered in Python through 3.9.1. The plistlib module no longer     accepts entity declarations in XML plist files to avoid XML vulnerabilities. (CVE-2022-48565)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:4220-1 advisory.

  - An XML External Entity (XXE) issue was discovered in Python through 3.9.1. The plistlib module no longer     accepts entity declarations in XML plist files to avoid XML vulnerabilities. (CVE-2022-48565)

  - An issue was discovered in compare_digest in Lib/hmac.py in Python through 3.9.1. Constant-time-defeating     optimisations were possible in the accumulator variable in hmac.compare_digest. (CVE-2022-48566)

  - The email module of Python through 3.11.3 incorrectly parses e-mail addresses that contain a special     character. The wrong portion of an RFC2822 header is identified as the value of the addr-spec. In some     applications, an attacker can bypass a protection mechanism in which application access is granted only     after verifying receipt of e-mail to a specific domain (e.g., only @company.example.com addresses may be     used for signup). This occurs in email/_parseaddr.py in recent versions of Python. (CVE-2023-27043)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of python3 installed on the remote host is prior to 3.7.10-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2317 advisory.

    2024-08-28: CVE-2022-48564 was added to this advisory.

    2023-10-30: CVE-2020-26116 was added to this advisory.

    2023-10-30: CVE-2020-27619 was added to this advisory.

    A flaw was found in Python. The built-in modules httplib and http.client (included in Python 2 and Python     3, respectively) do not properly validate CRLF sequences in the HTTP request method, potentially allowing     manipulation to the request by injecting additional HTTP headers. The highest threat from this     vulnerability is to confidentiality and integrity. (CVE-2020-26116)

    In Python3's Lib/test/multibytecodec_support.py CJK codec tests call eval() on content retrieved via HTTP.
    (CVE-2020-27619)

    read_ints in plistlib.py in Python through 3.9.1 is vulnerable to a potential DoS attack via CPU and RAM     exhaustion when processing malformed Apple Property List files in binary format. (CVE-2022-48564)

    An XML External Entity (XXE) issue was discovered in Python through 3.9.1. The plistlib module no longer     accepts entity declarations in XML plist files to avoid XML vulnerabilities. (CVE-2022-48565)

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.

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-348a0dbcf3 advisory.

    Security fix for CVE-2022-48565.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-e47078af3e advisory.

    Security fix for CVE-2022-48565.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-3614 advisory.

  - A use-after-free exists in Python through 3.9 via heappushpop in heapq. (CVE-2022-48560)

  - read_ints in plistlib.py in Python through 3.9.1 is vulnerable to a potential DoS attack via CPU and RAM     exhaustion when processing malformed Apple Property List files in binary format. (CVE-2022-48564)

  - An XML External Entity (XXE) issue was discovered in Python through 3.9.1. The plistlib module no longer     accepts entity declarations in XML plist files to avoid XML vulnerabilities. (CVE-2022-48565)

  - An issue was discovered in compare_digest in Lib/hmac.py in Python through 3.9.1. Constant-time-defeating     optimisations were possible in the accumulator variable in hmac.compare_digest. (CVE-2022-48566)

  - An issue was discovered in Python before 3.8.18, 3.9.x before 3.9.18, 3.10.x before 3.10.13, and 3.11.x     before 3.11.5. It primarily affects servers (such as HTTP servers) that use TLS client authentication. If     a TLS server-side socket is created, receives data into the socket buffer, and then is closed quickly,     there is a brief window where the SSLSocket instance will detect the socket as not connected and won't     initiate a handshake, but buffered data will still be readable from the socket buffer. This data will not     be authenticated if the server-side TLS peer is expecting client certificate authentication, and is     indistinguishable from valid TLS stream data. Data is limited in size to the amount that will fit in the     buffer. (The TLS connection cannot directly be used for data exfiltration because the vulnerable code path     requires that the connection be closed on initialization of the SSLSocket.) (CVE-2023-40217)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED12 / SLED_SAP12 / SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:4001-1 advisory.

  - An XML External Entity (XXE) issue was discovered in Python through 3.9.1. The plistlib module no longer     accepts entity declarations in XML plist files to avoid XML vulnerabilities. (CVE-2022-48565)

  - An issue was discovered in compare_digest in Lib/hmac.py in Python through 3.9.1. Constant-time-defeating     optimisations were possible in the accumulator variable in hmac.compare_digest. (CVE-2022-48566)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-3575 advisory.

  - The package python/cpython from 0 and before 3.6.13, from 3.7.0 and before 3.7.10, from 3.8.0 and before     3.8.8, from 3.9.0 and before 3.9.2 are vulnerable to Web Cache Poisoning via urllib.parse.parse_qsl and     urllib.parse.parse_qs by using a vector called parameter cloaking. When the attacker can separate query     parameters using a semicolon (;), they can cause a difference in the interpretation of the request between     the proxy (running with default configuration) and the server. This can result in malicious requests being     cached as completely safe ones, as the proxy would usually not see the semicolon as a separator, and     therefore would not include it in a cache key of an unkeyed parameter. (CVE-2021-23336)

  - A flaw was found in Python, specifically within the urllib.parse module. This module helps break Uniform     Resource Locator (URL) strings into components. The issue involves how the urlparse method does not     sanitize input and allows characters like '\r' and '\n' in the URL path. This flaw allows an attacker to     input a crafted URL, leading to injection attacks. This flaw affects Python versions prior to 3.10.0b1,     3.9.5, 3.8.11, 3.7.11 and 3.6.14. (CVE-2022-0391)

  - A use-after-free exists in Python through 3.9 via heappushpop in heapq. (CVE-2022-48560)

  - An XML External Entity (XXE) issue was discovered in Python through 3.9.1. The plistlib module no longer     accepts entity declarations in XML plist files to avoid XML vulnerabilities. (CVE-2022-48565)

  - An issue was discovered in compare_digest in Lib/hmac.py in Python through 3.9.1. Constant-time-defeating     optimisations were possible in the accumulator variable in hmac.compare_digest. (CVE-2022-48566)

  - An issue in the urllib.parse component of Python before 3.11.4 allows attackers to bypass blocklisting     methods by supplying a URL that starts with blank characters. (CVE-2023-24329)

  - An issue was discovered in Python before 3.8.18, 3.9.x before 3.9.18, 3.10.x before 3.10.13, and 3.11.x     before 3.11.5. It primarily affects servers (such as HTTP servers) that use TLS client authentication. If     a TLS server-side socket is created, receives data into the socket buffer, and then is closed quickly,     there is a brief window where the SSLSocket instance will detect the socket as not connected and won't     initiate a handshake, but buffered data will still be readable from the socket buffer. This data will not     be authenticated if the server-side TLS peer is expecting client certificate authentication, and is     indistinguishable from valid TLS stream data. Data is limited in size to the amount that will fit in the     buffer. (The TLS connection cannot directly be used for data exfiltration because the vulnerable code path     requires that the connection be closed on initialization of the SSLSocket.) (CVE-2023-40217)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6354-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Python did not properly handle XML entity declarations in plist files. An attacker     could possibly use this vulnerability to perform an XML External Entity (XXE) injection, resulting in a     denial of service or information disclosure.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
203866	Photon OS 3.0: Python3 PHSA-2023-3.0-0646	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	critical
202187	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.10 : Python vulnerabilities (USN-6891-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
198035	Oracle Linux 8 : python27:2.7 (ELSA-2024-2987)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	critical
197745	RHEL 8 : python27:2.7 (RHSA-2024:2987)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
197530	F5 Networks BIG-IP : Python vulnerabilities (K000139691)	Nessus	F5 Networks Local Security Checks	critical
197282	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.6.0 : python2 (EulerOS-SA-2024-1697)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
197250	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.6.0 : python3 (EulerOS-SA-2024-1698)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
197242	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.6.6 : python (EulerOS-SA-2024-1663)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
196757	RHEL 6 : python (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
196743	RHEL 7 : python (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
194712	Fedora 40 : python2.7 (2023-de99cdb793)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
191889	EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : python2 (EulerOS-SA-2024-1290)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
191816	EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : python3 (EulerOS-SA-2024-1291)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
190314	EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : python (EulerOS-SA-2024-1160)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
185284	Fedora 39 : python2.7 (2023-ea38857cc3)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
184393	Amazon Linux AMI : python27 (ALAS-2023-1880)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	critical
184285	Amazon Linux 2 : python (ALAS-2023-2330)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	critical
183944	SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : python (SUSE-SU-2023:4220-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
183926	Amazon Linux 2 : python3 (ALAS-2023-2317)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	critical
183656	Fedora 38 : python2.7 (2023-348a0dbcf3)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
183654	Fedora 37 : python2.7 (2023-e47078af3e)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
182942	Debian DLA-3614-1 : python3.7 - LTS security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical
182742	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : python (SUSE-SU-2023:4001-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
181697	Debian DLA-3575-1 : python2.7 - LTS security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical
181129	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM : Python vulnerability (USN-6354-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical

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