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Fedora 41 : python-webob (2024-b4c4fd0879)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 211229

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-b4c4fd0879 advisory.

 Automatic update for python-webob-1.8.8-1.fc41.

 ##### **Changelog**

 ```
 * Thu Aug 15 2024 Jn ONDREJ (SAL) <ondrejj(at)salstar.sk> - 1.8.8-1
 - Update to upstream. Fix open redirect issue in 1.8-branch rhbz#2305065
 - pypi_source constructed manually according to project/name case inconsistency
 - only require legacy-cgi on on systems where it's present
 - remove python3.9 patch (applied upstream)

 ```

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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-webob package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-b4c4fd0879

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 211229

File Name: fedora_2024-b4c4fd0879.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/14/2024

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-42353

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:python-webob, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:41

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/15/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/14/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-42353