The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CESA-2023:2860 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in Python before 3.11.1. An unnecessary quadratic algorithm exists in one path     when processing some inputs to the IDNA (RFC 3490) decoder, such that a crafted, unreasonably long name     being presented to the decoder could lead to a CPU denial of service. Hostnames are often supplied by     remote servers that could be controlled by a malicious actor; in such a scenario, they could trigger     excessive CPU consumption on the client attempting to make use of an attacker-supplied supposed hostname.
    For example, the attack payload could be placed in the Location header of an HTTP response with status     code 302. A fix is planned in 3.11.1, 3.10.9, 3.9.16, 3.8.16, and 3.7.16. (CVE-2022-45061)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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CentOS 8 : python27:2.7 (CESA-2023:2860)

high Nessus Plugin ID 175856

Version 1.6