openSUSE 15 Security Update : aws-cli, python-boto3, python-botocore, python-service_identity, python-trustme, python-urllib3 (openSUSE-SU-2021:1206-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 152896

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SUSE15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2021:1206-1 advisory.

- urllib3 before 1.25.9 allows CRLF injection if the attacker controls the HTTP request method, as demonstrated by inserting CR and LF control characters in the first argument of putrequest(). NOTE: this is similar to CVE-2020-26116. (CVE-2020-26137)

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 affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 152896

File Name: openSUSE-2021-1206.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/28/2021

Updated: 8/28/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-26137

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python2-cffi, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python3-pyopenssl, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python3-cryptography, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python2-pyopenssl, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python2-cryptography, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python3-cffi

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/27/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/30/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-26137

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