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EulerOS Virtualization 2.9.1 : python-wheel (EulerOS-SA-2023-2003)

high Nessus Plugin ID 176594

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - An issue discovered in Python Packaging Authority (PyPA) Wheel 0.37.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via attacker controlled input to wheel cli. (CVE-2022-40898)

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-wheel packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?1354d94f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 176594

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2023-2003.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Published: 6/2/2023

Updated: 6/2/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-40898

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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-wheel-wheel, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:2.9.1

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: 6/1/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/23/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-40898