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RHEL 9 : python3.12-urllib3 (RHSA-2024:9923)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 211815
Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for python3.12-urllib3.Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:9923 advisory.urllib3 is a powerful, user-friendly HTTP client for Python. urllib3 brings many critical features that are missing from the Python standard libraries:
Thread safety.
Connection pooling.
Client-side SSL/TLS verification.
File uploads with multipart encoding.
Helpers for retrying requests and dealing with HTTP redirects.
Support for gzip, deflate, brotli, and zstd encoding.
Proxy support for HTTP and SOCKS.
100% test coverage.
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 python3.12-urllib3 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:9923.See Also
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9923
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 211815
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-9923.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 11/25/2024
Updated: 11/25/2024
Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous 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: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3.12-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: 11/19/2024
Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/17/2024
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2024-37891