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RHEL 8 : python27:2.7 (RHSA-2023:3932)

high Nessus Plugin ID 177786

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for python27:2.7.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:3932 advisory.

 Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language that supports modules, classes, exceptions, high-level dynamic data types, and dynamic typing. The python27 packages provide a stable release of Python 2.7 with a number of additional utilities and database connectors for MySQL and PostgreSQL.

 Security Fix(es):

 * python: urllib.parse url blocklisting bypass (CVE-2023-24329)

 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 python27:2.7 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:3932.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?a8e0c071

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2173917

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3932

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 177786

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-3932.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/29/2023

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: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-24329

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:H/A:N

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-rpm-macros, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-docutils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pyyaml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-urllib3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-setuptools-wheel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pytz, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-setuptools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pytest-mock, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-jinja2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-mock, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-requests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-sqlalchemy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pymysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-virtualenv, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-chardet, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-attrs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pip-wheel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-nose-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pytest-mock, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-funcsigs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-tkinter, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pysocks, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pyyaml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-funcsigs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-py, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pluggy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pytest, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-psycopg2-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-cython, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-urllib3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-ipaddress, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-numpy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-coverage, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-dns, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-psycopg2-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-mock, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-backports, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-numpy-f2py, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-markupsafe, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-numpy-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pytz, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-setuptools_scm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-psycopg2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-scipy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-lxml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-attrs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-chardet, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-backports-ssl_match_hostname, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-virtualenv, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-wheel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-babel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:babel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pysocks, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-dns, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:numpy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-nose, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-docutils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-nose, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pygments, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pip, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-ipaddress, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-idna, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pymongo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pluggy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-idna, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-markupsafe, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-docs-info, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pygments, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-py, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-six, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cython, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-lxml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-sqlalchemy-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-backports, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-coverage, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-psycopg2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pymongo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pytest, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-psycopg2-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:scipy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-six, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-wheel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-bson, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-sqlalchemy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-setuptools_scm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-jinja2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pymysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pymongo-gridfs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-requests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-backports-ssl_match_hostname, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-wheel-wheel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/29/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/17/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-24329

CWE: 20

IAVA: 2023-A-0118-S, 2023-A-0283-S

RHSA: 2023:3932