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Fedora 38 : python-lxml (2022-3ff6a5e8ab)

high Nessus Plugin ID 211245

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2022-3ff6a5e8ab advisory.

 Automatic update for python-lxml-4.9.1-1.fc38.

 ##### **Changelog**

 ```
 * Wed Sep 14 2022 Charalampos Stratakis <[email protected]> - 4.9.1-1
 - Update to 4.9.1
 - Fix for CVE-2022-2309
 - Resolves: rhbz#2107571, rhbz#2110131

 ```

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-lxml package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-3ff6a5e8ab

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 211245

File Name: fedora_2022-3ff6a5e8ab.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: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-2309

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:38, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:python-lxml

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: 9/15/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/5/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2309