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EulerOS Virtualization 2.9.0 : python-setuptools (EulerOS-SA-2023-1682)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 174866

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - Python Packaging Authority (PyPA) setuptools before 65.5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via HTML in a crafted package or custom PackageIndex page. There is a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in package_index.py. (CVE-2022-40897)

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-setuptools packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?a5eb4c51

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 174866

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2023-1682.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Published: 4/27/2023

Updated: 4/27/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-40897

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:python-setuptools, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:python3-setuptools, 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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/27/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/13/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-40897