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EulerOS Virtualization 2.9.1 : python-pip (EulerOS-SA-2021-2761)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 155479

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the versions of the python-pip packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

 - A flaw was found in python-pip in the way it handled Unicode separators in git references. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to install a different revision on a repository. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data integrity. This is fixed in python-pip version 21.1. (CVE-2021-3572)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected python-pip packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?2a8aa65c

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 155479

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2021-2761.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 11/17/2021

Updated: 4/18/2022

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3572

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.7

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:2.9.1, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:python-pip-wheel, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:python3-pip

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/17/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/9/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3572