RHEL 8 : python-XStatic-jQuery224 (RHSA-2020:5412)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 144399

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for python-XStatic-jQuery224.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:5412 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* Passing HTML containing <option> elements to manipulation methods could result in untrusted code execution (CVE-2020-11023)

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-jQuery224 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:5412.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?d87c767e

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5412

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1850004

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 144399

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-5412.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/18/2020

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.7

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-2020-11023

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:python3-xstatic-jquery224, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-xstatic-jquery224

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: 12/15/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/29/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-11023

CWE: 79

IAVA: 2021-A-0194-S

IAVB: 2020-B-0030

RHSA: 2020:5412