RHEL 7 : python-twisted-web (RHSA-2022:4930)

high Nessus Plugin ID 161924

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for python-twisted-web.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:4930 advisory.

Twisted is an event-based framework for internet applications. Twisted Web is a complete web server, aimed at hosting web applications using Twisted and Python, but fully able to serve static pages too.

Security Fix(es):

* python-twisted: possible http request smuggling (CVE-2022-24801)

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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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 RHEL python-twisted-web package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:4930.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?4d76cd04

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4930

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2073114

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 161924

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-4930.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/7/2022

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-24801

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-twisted-web, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/7/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/4/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-24801

CWE: 444

RHSA: 2022:4930