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Debian DLA-2232-1 : python-httplib2 security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 137008

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

In httplib2, an attacker controlling unescaped part of uri for `httplib2.Http.request()` could change request headers and body, send additional hidden requests to same server. This vulnerability impacts software that uses httplib2 with uri constructed by string concatenation, as opposed to proper urllib building with escaping.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 0.9+dfsg-2+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your python-httplib2 packages.

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

Solution

Upgrade the affected python-httplib2, and python3-httplib2 packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00000.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/python-httplib2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 137008

File Name: debian_DLA-2232.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/2/2020

Updated: 3/8/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-11078

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-httplib2, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python3-httplib2, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/1/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/20/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-11078