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RHEL 7 : python-XStatic-jQuery (RHSA-2020:5581)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 144388

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for python-XStatic-jQuery.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:5581 advisory.

 python-XStatic-jQuery is the jQuery javascript library packaged for Python's setuptools

 Security Fix(es):

 * Prototype pollution in object's prototype leading to denial of service remote code execution or property injection (CVE-2019-11358)

 For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page listed in 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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL python-XStatic-jQuery package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:5581.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?8011c92c

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5581

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1701972

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 144388

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-5581.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/18/2020

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

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-2019-11358

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:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-xstatic-jquery, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/16/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/9/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-11358

BID: 108023

CWE: 79

IAVA: 2019-A-0384, 2020-A-0017, 2020-A-0150

RHSA: 2020:5581