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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Requests vulnerabilities (USN-2382-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 78467

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2382-1 advisory.

 Jakub Wilk discovered that Requests incorrectly reused authentication credentials after being redirected.
 An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain authentication credentials intended for another site.
 (CVE-2014-1829, CVE-2014-1830)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected python-requests and / or python3-requests packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2382-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 78467

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2382-1.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/15/2014

Updated: 8/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-1830

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-requests, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-requests

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/14/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/15/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-1829, CVE-2014-1830

BID: 70012, 70013

USN: 2382-1