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Fedora 41 : python-mechanicalsoup (2024-45b02f63e4)

high Nessus Plugin ID 211430

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-2024-45b02f63e4 advisory.

 Automatic update for python-mechanicalsoup-1.3.0-1.fc41.

 ##### **Changelog**

 ```
 * Sun Apr 7 2024 Fabian Affolter <[email protected]> - 1.3.0-1
 - Update to latest upstream version 1.3.0 (closes rhbz#2219697)
 - Fix rhbz#2219756, rhbz#2261581 and rhbz#2232585

 ```

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-mechanicalsoup package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-45b02f63e4

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 211430

File Name: fedora_2024-45b02f63e4.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/15/2024

Updated: 11/15/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-34457

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:H/I:N/A:N

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:python-mechanicalsoup, 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: 4/7/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/4/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-34457