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Fedora 39 : python-tqdm (2024-ef71921bde)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 197157

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-ef71921bde advisory.

 - tqdm is an open source progress bar for Python and CLI. Any optional non-boolean CLI arguments (e.g.
 `--delim`, `--buf-size`, `--manpath`) are passed through python's `eval`, allowing arbitrary code execution. This issue is only locally exploitable and had been addressed in release version 4.66.3. All users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability. (CVE-2024-34062)

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 affected python-tqdm package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-ef71921bde

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 197157

File Name: fedora_2024-ef71921bde.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/16/2024

Updated: 5/16/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.2

Temporal Score: 2.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-34062

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:39, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:python-tqdm

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/6/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/2/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-34062