Rocky Linux 8 : python38:3.8 and python38-devel:3.8 (RLSA-2021:4162)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 184819

Synopsis

The remote Rocky Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2021:4162 advisory.

- psutil (aka python-psutil) through 5.6.5 can have a double free. This occurs because of refcount mishandling within a while or for loop that converts system data into a Python object. (CVE-2019-18874)

- In Python 3 through 3.9.0, the Lib/test/multibytecodec_support.py CJK codec tests call eval() on content retrieved via HTTP. (CVE-2020-27619)

- This affects the package jinja2 from 0.0.0 and before 2.11.3. The ReDoS vulnerability is mainly due to the `_punctuation_re regex` operator and its use of multiple wildcards. The last wildcard is the most exploitable as it searches for trailing punctuation. This issue can be mitigated by Markdown to format user content instead of the urlize filter, or by implementing request timeouts and limiting process memory. (CVE-2020-28493)

- The package python/cpython from 0 and before 3.6.13, from 3.7.0 and before 3.7.10, from 3.8.0 and before 3.8.8, from 3.9.0 and before 3.9.2 are vulnerable to Web Cache Poisoning via urllib.parse.parse_qsl and urllib.parse.parse_qs by using a vector called parameter cloaking. When the attacker can separate query parameters using a semicolon (;), they can cause a difference in the interpretation of the request between the proxy (running with default configuration) and the server. This can result in malicious requests being cached as completely safe ones, as the proxy would usually not see the semicolon as a separator, and therefore would not include it in a cache key of an unkeyed parameter. (CVE-2021-23336)

- An XSS vulnerability was discovered in python-lxml's clean module versions before 4.6.3. When disabling the safe_attrs_only and forms arguments, the Cleaner class does not remove the formaction attribute allowing for JS to bypass the sanitizer. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to run arbitrary JS code on users who interact with incorrectly sanitized HTML. This issue is patched in lxml 4.6.3.
(CVE-2021-28957)

- In Python before 3,9,5, the ipaddress library mishandles leading zero characters in the octets of an IP address string. This (in some situations) allows attackers to bypass access control that is based on IP addresses. (CVE-2021-29921)

- An issue was discovered in urllib3 before 1.26.5. When provided with a URL containing many @ characters in the authority component, the authority regular expression exhibits catastrophic backtracking, causing a denial of service if a URL were passed as a parameter or redirected to via an HTTP redirect.
(CVE-2021-33503)

- There's a flaw in Python 3's pydoc. A local or adjacent attacker who discovers or is able to convince another local or adjacent user to start a pydoc server could access the server and use it to disclose sensitive information belonging to the other user that they would not normally be able to access. The highest risk of this flaw is to data confidentiality. This flaw affects Python versions before 3.8.9, Python versions before 3.9.3 and Python versions before 3.10.0a7. (CVE-2021-3426)

- A flaw was found in python-pip in the way it handled Unicode separators in git references. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to install a different revision on a repository. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data integrity. This is fixed in python-pip version 21.1. (CVE-2021-3572)

- Babel.Locale in Babel before 2.9.1 allows attackers to load arbitrary locale .dat files (containing serialized Python objects) via directory traversal, leading to code execution. (CVE-2021-42771)

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 184819

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2021-4162.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Rocky Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 11/7/2023

Updated: 1/16/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-29921

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cython-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:pyyaml-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:numpy-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-cffi-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-cryptography-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-lxml-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-markupsafe-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-psutil-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-psycopg2-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-cython, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-cython-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-pymysql, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-asn1crypto, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-atomicwrites, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-attrs, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-babel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-cffi, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-cffi-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-chardet, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-cryptography, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-cryptography-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-debug, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-idle, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-idna, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-jinja2, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-libs, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-lxml, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-lxml-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-markupsafe, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-markupsafe-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-mod_wsgi, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-more-itertools, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-numpy, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-numpy-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-numpy-doc, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-numpy-f2py, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-packaging, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-pip, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-pip-wheel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-pluggy, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-psycopg2-tests, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-py, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-pycparser, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-pyparsing, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-pysocks, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-pytest, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-pytz, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-pyyaml, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-pyyaml-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-requests, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-rpm-macros, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-scipy, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-scipy-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-setuptools, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-setuptools-wheel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-six, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-test, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-tkinter, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-urllib3, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-wcwidth, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-wheel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-wheel-wheel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:scipy-debugsource, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-ply, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-psutil, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-psutil-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-psycopg2, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-psycopg2-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python38-psycopg2-doc

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/9/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/12/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-18874, CVE-2020-27619, CVE-2020-28493, CVE-2021-23336, CVE-2021-28957, CVE-2021-29921, CVE-2021-33503, CVE-2021-3426, CVE-2021-3572, CVE-2021-42771

IAVA: 2021-A-0052-S, 2021-A-0263-S

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