RHEL 8 : Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2.6 (python-twisted) (RHSA-2024:1518)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 192583

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2.6 (python-twisted).

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:1518 advisory.

Twisted is a networking engine written in Python, supporting numerous protocols. It contains a web server, numerous chat clients, chat servers, mail servers and more.

Security Fix(es):

* python-twisted: disordered HTTP pipeline response in twisted.web (CVE-2023-46137)

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 Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2.6 (python-twisted) package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:1518.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?66a51037

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2246264

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1518

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 192583

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-1518.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/26/2024

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: Low

Score: 2.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-46137

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-twisted, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-twisted

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: 3/26/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/24/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-46137

CWE: 444

RHSA: 2024:1518