Fedora 31 : python-markdown2 (2020-ab379d4b90)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 136843

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

### python-markdown2 2.3.9 ###

- [pull #335] Added header support for wiki tables

- [pull #336] Reset _toc when convert is run

- [pull #353] XSS fix

- [pull #350] XSS fix

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

Solution

Update the affected python-markdown2 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-ab379d4b90

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 136843

File Name: fedora_2020-ab379d4b90.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/26/2020

Updated: 3/8/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-11888

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:python-markdown2, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:31

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/25/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/20/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-11888