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RHEL 8 : python3.11-urllib3 (RHSA-2025:0078)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 213622

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for python3.11-urllib3.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:0078 advisory.

 Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language, which includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems.

 Security Fix(es):

 * urllib3: Request body not stripped after redirect from 303 status changes request method to GET (CVE-2023-45803)

 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 python3.11-urllib3 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:0078.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2246840

http://www.nessus.org/u?124d353f

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0078

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 213622

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-0078.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/9/2025

Updated: 1/9/2025

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: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-45803

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.2

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/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:8.8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3.11-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: 1/8/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/17/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-45803

CWE: 200

RHSA: 2025:0078