The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2023-5998 advisory.

    - Security fix for CVE-2021-43818     Resolves: rhbz#2032569

    python-more-itertools
    - Fix for CVE-2021-33503 Catastrophic backtracking in URL authority parser     Resolves: rhbz#1968074

    python-wcwidth

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle 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.

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Oracle Linux 8 : python39:3.9 / and / python39-devel:3.9 (ELSA-2023-5998)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 183911

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