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EulerOS 2.0 SP12 : python-configobj (EulerOS-SA-2025-1196)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 216005

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the versions of the python-configobj package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

 All versions of the package configobj are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the validate function, using (.+?)\((.*)\).**Note:** This is only exploitable in the case of a developer, putting the offending value in a server side configuration file.(CVE-2023-26112)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS python-configobj 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-configobj packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?939ca4f9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 216005

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2025-1196.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 2/10/2025

Updated: 2/10/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-26112

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:python3-configobj

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/10/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/3/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-26112