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EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : PyYAML (EulerOS-SA-2019-2299)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 131365

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the PyYAML packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - In PyYAML before 5.1, the yaml.load() API could execute arbitrary code if used with untrusted data. The load() function has been deprecated in version 5.1 and the 'UnsafeLoader' has been introduced for backward compatibility with the function.(CVE-2017-18342)

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.

Solution

Update the affected PyYAML package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?51fa915a

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 131365

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-2299.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 11/27/2019

Updated: 4/9/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-18342

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:python2-pyyaml, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:python3-pyyaml, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/27/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-18342