Oracle Linux 8 : python27:2.7 (ELSA-2021-1761)

high Nessus Plugin ID 152764

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2021-1761 advisory.

- Security fix for CVE-2021-3177 Resolves: rhbz#1919163
- Security fix for CVE-2020-26116: Reject control chars in HTTP method in httplib.putrequest Resolves: rhbz#1883258

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle 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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 152764

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2021-1761.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Oracle Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/24/2021

Updated: 11/1/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3177

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.9

Threat Score: 8.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: 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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-27783

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-scipy, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-tkinter, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-pymongo, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-setuptools, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-pip-wheel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-funcsigs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-markupsafe, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-sqlalchemy, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-pymysql, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-test, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python-sqlalchemy-doc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-backports, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-pyyaml, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-backports-ssl_match_hostname, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-lxml, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-pysocks, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-mock, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-tools, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-py, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:babel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-rpm-macros, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-pip, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-coverage, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-psycopg2, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-virtualenv, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-requests, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-urllib3, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-pytz, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-setuptools_scm, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-bson, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-wheel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-wheel-wheel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-numpy, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-docs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-idna, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-docs-info, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-attrs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-babel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-pygments, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-numpy-f2py, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-nose, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-psycopg2-tests, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python-psycopg2-doc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-six, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-dns, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python-nose-docs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-cython, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-ipaddress, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-numpy-doc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-pluggy, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-pymongo-gridfs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-docutils, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-pytest-mock, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-setuptools-wheel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-jinja2, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-chardet, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-pytest, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python2-psycopg2-debug

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/25/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/30/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-26116, CVE-2020-26137, CVE-2020-27783, CVE-2021-3177

IAVA: 2020-A-0340-S, 2021-A-0052-S

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