RHEL 9 : python-tornado (RHSA-2024:10590)

high Nessus Plugin ID 211988

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for python-tornado.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:10590 advisory.

Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library that provides an open source version of scalable, non-blocking web server and tools.

Security Fix(es):

* python-tornado: Tornado has HTTP cookie parsing DoS vulnerability (CVE-2024-52804)

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 python-tornado package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:10590.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 211988

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-10590.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 12/2/2024

Updated: 12/2/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-52804

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-tornado, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-tornado, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

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: 12/2/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/22/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-52804

CWE: 770

RHSA: 2024:10590

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