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EulerOS Virtualization 2.9.0 : python-ldap (EulerOS-SA-2023-1230)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 169796
Synopsis
The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.Description
According to the versions of the python-ldap packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :- python-ldap before 3.4.0 is vulnerable to a denial of service when ldap.schema is used for untrusted schema definitions, because of a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) flaw in the LDAP schema parser. By sending crafted regex input, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition. (CVE-2021-46823)
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-ldap packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 169796
File Name: EulerOS_SA-2023-1230.nasl
Version: 1.0
Type: local
Family: Huawei Local Security Checks
Published: 1/10/2023
Updated: 1/10/2023
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.6
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4
Temporal Score: 3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-46823
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.5
Temporal Score: 5.7
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:python-ldap-help, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:python3-ldap, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:2.9.0
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: 1/10/2023
Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/18/2022
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2021-46823