The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:7034 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.

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RHEL 8 : python39:3.9 and python39-devel:3.9 (RHSA-2023:7034)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 185688

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Version 1.3 Nov 7, 2024, 8:25 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 9.3) Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411072025
Version 1.2 Nov 5, 2024, 9:32 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 9.3) CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 threat vector" set to "CVSS:4.0/E:P") CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 vector" set to "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") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411052132
Version 1.1 Apr 23, 2024, 11:13 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202404232313
Version 1.0 Nov 15, 2023, 4:54 AM New Plugin Feed: 202311150454