The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:3062 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: Parsing errors in email/_parseaddr.py lead to incorrect value in email address part of tuple     (CVE-2023-27043)

    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 8.10 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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 8 : python3.11 (RHSA-2024:3062)

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Version 1.2 Mar 13, 2025, 9:08 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202503132108
Version 1.1 Nov 7, 2024, 8:25 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 threat vector" set to "CVSS:4.0/E:P") Plugin metadata CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 9.3) 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 Feed: 202411072025
Version 1.0 May 23, 2024, 6:06 PM New Plugin Feed: 202405231806