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RHEL 9 : python-urllib3 (RHSA-2024:6240)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 206494

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for python-urllib3.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:6240 advisory.

 The python-urllib3 package provides the Python HTTP module with connection pooling and file POST abilities.

 Security Fix(es):

 * urllib3: proxy-authorization request header is not stripped during cross-origin redirects (CVE-2024-37891)

 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 python-urllib3 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:6240.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2292788

http://www.nessus.org/u?63d3050b

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6240

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 206494

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-6240.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/3/2024

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-37891

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-urllib3, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-urllib3

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/3/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/17/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-37891

CWE: 669

RHSA: 2024:6240