All versions of the package configobj are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the validate function, using (.+?)\((.*)\). **Note:** This is only exploitable in the case of a developer, putting the offending value in a server side configuration file.

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-7040-2 advisory.

    USN-7040-1 fixed a vulnerability in ConfigObj. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu     14.04 LTS.



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.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-7040-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that ConfigObj contains regex that is susceptible to catastrophic backtracking. An     attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a regular expression denial of service.

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.

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the 46419e8c-65d9-11ef-ac06-b0416f0c4c67 advisory.

    report@snyk.io reports:
    All versions of the package configobj are vulnerable to Regular             Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the validate function,             using (.+?)\((.*)\).**Note:** This is only exploitable in the case             of a developer putting the offending value in a server side             configuration file.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the FreeBSD 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 Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - python-configobj: Regular expression denial of service exists in ./src/configobj/validate.py     (CVE-2023-26112)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - python-configobj: Regular expression denial of service exists in ./src/configobj/validate.py     (CVE-2023-26112)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

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

  - All versions of the package configobj are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via     the validate function, using (.+?)\((.*)\). **Note:** This is only exploitable in the case of a developer,     putting the offending value in a server side configuration file. (CVE-2023-26112)

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-configobj packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - All versions of the package configobj are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via     the validate function, using (.+?)\((.*)\). **Note:** This is only exploitable in the case of a developer,     putting the offending value in a server side configuration file. (CVE-2023-26112)

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-configobj package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - All versions of the package configobj are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via     the validate function, using (.+?)\((.*)\). **Note:** This is only exploitable in the case of a developer,     putting the offending value in a server side configuration file. (CVE-2023-26112)

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-configobj packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - All versions of the package configobj are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via     the validate function, using (.+?)\((.*)\). **Note:** This is only exploitable in the case of a developer,     putting the offending value in a server side configuration file. (CVE-2023-26112)

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 a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-64b2965699 advisory.

    Fixes an issue in configobj:  CVE-2023-26112

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.

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-27b41bb133 advisory.

    Fixes an issue in configobj:  CVE-2023-26112

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.

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-62baa45349 advisory.

    Fixes an issue in configobj:  CVE-2023-26112

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.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3369-1 advisory.

  - All versions of the package configobj are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via     the validate function, using (.+?)\((.*)\). **Note:** This is only exploitable in the case of a developer,     putting the offending value in a server side configuration file. (CVE-2023-26112)

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 SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3368-1 advisory.

  - All versions of the package configobj are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via     the validate function, using (.+?)\((.*)\). **Note:** This is only exploitable in the case of a developer,     putting the offending value in a server side configuration file. (CVE-2023-26112)

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-configobj installed on the remote host is prior to 4.7.2-7. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2188 advisory.

  - All versions of the package configobj are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via     the validate function, using (.+?)\((.*)\). **Note:** This is only exploitable in the case of a developer,     putting the offending value in a server side configuration file. (CVE-2023-26112)

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

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-254 advisory.

  - All versions of the package configobj are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via     the validate function, using (.+?)\((.*)\). **Note:** This is only exploitable in the case of a developer,     putting the offending value in a server side configuration file. (CVE-2023-26112)

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 FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the de970aef-d60e-466b-8e30-1ae945a047f1 advisory.

  - All versions of the package configobj are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via     the validate function, using (.+?)\((.*)\). **Note:** This is only exploitable in the case of a developer,     putting the offending value in a server side configuration file. (CVE-2023-26112)

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
208959	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : ConfigObj vulnerability (USN-7040-2)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
207823	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : ConfigObj vulnerability (USN-7040-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
206332	FreeBSD : Configobj -- Regular Expression Denial of Service attack (46419e8c-65d9-11ef-ac06-b0416f0c4c67)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	medium
199669	RHEL 9 : python-configobj (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
199654	RHEL 8 : python-configobj (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
197278	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.6.6 : python-configobj (EulerOS-SA-2024-1664)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
197226	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.6.0 : python-configobj (EulerOS-SA-2024-1699)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
193023	EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : python-configobj (EulerOS-SA-2024-1514)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
193018	EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : python-configobj (EulerOS-SA-2024-1493)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
192077	EulerOS Virtualization 2.10.1 : python-configobj (EulerOS-SA-2024-1367)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
192066	EulerOS Virtualization 2.10.0 : python-configobj (EulerOS-SA-2024-1388)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
191820	EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : python-configobj (EulerOS-SA-2024-1292)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
190299	EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : python-configobj (EulerOS-SA-2024-1161)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
188564	EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : python-configobj (EulerOS-SA-2024-1094)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
188563	EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : python-configobj (EulerOS-SA-2024-1070)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
185227	Fedora 39 : python-configobj (2023-64b2965699)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
183276	Fedora 38 : python-configobj (2023-27b41bb133)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
183274	Fedora 37 : python-configobj (2023-62baa45349)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
180047	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : python-configobj (SUSE-SU-2023:3369-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
180045	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : python-configobj (SUSE-SU-2023:3368-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
179750	Amazon Linux 2 : python-configobj (ALAS-2023-2188)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
178556	Amazon Linux 2023 : python3-configobj (ALAS2023-2023-254)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
174309	FreeBSD : py39-configobj -- vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (de970aef-d60e-466b-8e30-1ae945a047f1)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	medium

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