The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:1761 advisory.

    Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language that supports modules,     classes, exceptions, high-level dynamic data types, and dynamic typing. The python27 packages provide a     stable release of Python 2.7 with a number of additional utilities and database connectors for MySQL and     PostgreSQL.

    Security Fix(es):

    * python: CRLF injection via HTTP request method in httplib/http.client (CVE-2020-26116)

    * python-urllib3: CRLF injection via HTTP request method (CVE-2020-26137)

    * python-lxml: mXSS due to the use of improper parser (CVE-2020-27783)

    * python: Stack-based buffer overflow in PyCArg_repr in _ctypes/callproc.c (CVE-2021-3177)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Additional Changes:

    For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Release Notes     linked from 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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 8 : python27:2.7 (RHSA-2021:1761)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 149710

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Version 1.12 Nov 7, 2024, 8:52 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 9.3) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411070852
Version 1.11 Nov 5, 2024, 12:50 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 9.3) CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 threat vector" set to "CVSS:4.0/E:P") CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 vector" set to "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411051250
Version 1.9 Jan 1, 2024, 3:40 PM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C") Plugin Feed: 202401011540
Version 1.8 May 25, 2023, 12:55 AM Logic Changes (Added support for ppc64le architecture) Plugin Feed: 202305250055
Version 1.8 Jan 1, 2024, 1:39 PM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C") Plugin Feed: 202401011339
Version 1.7 Jan 23, 2023, 7:12 PM Logic Changes (Added support for repository relative URLs) Plugin Feed: 202301231912