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openSUSE 15 Security Update : python3 (openSUSE-SU-2022:0942-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 159223

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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-2022:0942-1 advisory.

 - 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 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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1186819

http://www.nessus.org/u?f02a046d

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3572

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 159223

File Name: openSUSE-2022-0942-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/25/2022

Updated: 3/25/2022

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, 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: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python3-curses, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python3-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python3-tk, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python3-dbm, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpython3_6m1_0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpython3_6m1_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python3-testsuite, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python3-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python3-base, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python3-idle

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: 3/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/9/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3572