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Fedora 38 : python3.6 (2022-2e93acb55d)

high Nessus Plugin ID 211341

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-2022-2e93acb55d advisory.

 Automatic update for python3.6-3.6.15-12.fc38.

 ##### **Changelog**

 ```
 * Wed Sep 14 2022 Lumr Balhar <[email protected]> - 3.6.15-12
 - Fix for CVE-2021-28861 Resolves: rhbz#2120785

 ```

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 python3.6 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-2e93acb55d

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 211341

File Name: fedora_2022-2e93acb55d.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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-28861

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:38, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:python3.6

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/22/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/23/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-28861