EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : python-reportlab (EulerOS-SA-2024-2075)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 205031

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the versions of the python-reportlab package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

paraparser in ReportLab before 3.5.31 allows remote code execution because start_unichar in paraparser.py evaluates untrusted user input in a unichar element in a crafted XML document with 'unichar code='' followed by arbitrary Python code, a similar issue to CVE-2019-17626.(CVE-2019-19450)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS python-reportlab 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 affected python-reportlab packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?62b3eba9

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 205031

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2024-2075.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 8/6/2024

Updated: 8/6/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-19450

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:python-reportlab, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/6/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/20/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-19450