RHEL 8 : python38:3.8 and python38-devel:3.8 (RHSA-2023:7050)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 185668

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for python38:3.8 / python38-devel:3.8.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:7050 advisory.

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language, which includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems.

Security Fix(es):

* python: tarfile module directory traversal (CVE-2007-4559)

* python-requests: Unintended leak of Proxy-Authorization header (CVE-2023-32681)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 Release Notes linked from 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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL python38:3.8 / python38-devel:3.8 packages based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:7050.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?819248f8

http://www.nessus.org/u?9269647a

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209469

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2213594

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2213836

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2213847

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2217853

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2217862

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2218267

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2222717

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263261

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7050

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 185668

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-7050.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/14/2023

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2007-4559

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-32681

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-32681

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-markupsafe, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-packaging, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-cython, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-psycopg2-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-wheel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pyyaml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-psutil, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pytz, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-mod_wsgi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-psycopg2-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-pycparser, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-jinja2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-requests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-setuptools-wheel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-lxml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-cryptography, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-numpy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-idna, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-requests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-pytz, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-pip, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-lxml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-psutil, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-attrs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-wheel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:babel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pysocks, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pymysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-pip-wheel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pycparser, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-numpy-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-cryptography, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-scipy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3x-six, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-idna, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-ply, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-chardet, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-packaging, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3x-pyparsing, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-rpm-macros, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-pytest, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-py, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-wcwidth, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-pluggy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-urllib3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3x-setuptools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pytest, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-chardet, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-urllib3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-atomicwrites, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-ply, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-cffi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-more-itertools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-numpy-f2py, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:numpy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-pyparsing, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3x-pip, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-idle, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-six, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-wheel-wheel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-tkinter, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-more-itertools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-pymysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-psycopg2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-py, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-pysocks, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-babel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-setuptools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pluggy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mod_wsgi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-markupsafe, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-wcwidth, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-asn1crypto, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-atomicwrites, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-jinja2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cython, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-pyyaml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-asn1crypto, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-psycopg2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-cffi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:scipy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-attrs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38

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: 11/14/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/27/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4559, CVE-2023-32681

CWE: 22, 402

RHSA: 2023:7050