aaugustin websockets version 4 contains a CWE-409: Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) vulnerability in Servers and clients, unless configured with compression=None that can result in Denial of Service by memory exhaustion. This attack appear to be exploitable via Sending a specially crafted frame on an established connection. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 5.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - aaugustin websockets version 4 contains a CWE-409: Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data
    Amplification) vulnerability in Servers and clients, unless configured with compression=None that can
    result in Denial of Service by memory exhaustion. This attack appear to be exploitable via Sending a
    specially crafted frame on an established connection. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 5.
    (CVE-2018-1000518)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:2783-2 advisory.

    grpc:
    - Update in SLE-15 (bsc#1197726, bsc#1144068)

    protobuf:
    - Fix a potential DoS issue in protobuf-cpp and protobuf-python, CVE-2022-1941, bsc#1203681
    - Fix a potential DoS issue when parsing with binary data in  protobuf-java, CVE-2022-3171, bsc#1204256
    - Fix potential Denial of Service in protobuf-java in the parsing procedure for binary data,     CVE-2021-22569, bsc#1194530
    - Add missing dependency of python subpackages on python-six (bsc#1177127)
    - Updated to version 3.9.2 (bsc#1162343)
      * Remove OSReadLittle* due to alignment requirements.
      * Don't use unions and instead use memcpy for the type swaps.
    - Disable LTO (bsc#1133277)

    python-aiocontextvars:
    - Include in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)

    python-avro:
    - Include in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)
    - Update in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)

    python-cryptography:
    - update to 3.3.2 (bsc#1182066, CVE-2020-36242, bsc#1198331)
      * SECURITY ISSUE: Fixed a bug where certain sequences of update()         calls when symmetrically encrypting very large payloads (>2GB) could         result in an integer overflow, leading to buffer overflows.
      CVE-2020-36242

    python-cryptography-vectors:
    - update to 3.2 (bsc#1178168, CVE-2020-25659):
      * CVE-2020-25659: Attempted to make RSA PKCS#1v1.5 decryption more constant time,         to protect against Bleichenbacher vulnerabilities. Due to limitations imposed         by our API, we cannot completely mitigate this vulnerability.
      * Support for OpenSSL 1.0.2 has been removed.
      * Added basic support for PKCS7 signing (including SMIME) via PKCS7SignatureBuilder.
    - update to 3.3.2 (bsc#1198331)

    python-Deprecated:
    - Include in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)
    - update to 1.2.13:

    python-google-api-core:
    - Update to 1.14.2

    python-googleapis-common-protos:
    - Update to 1.6.0

    python-grpcio-gcp:
    - Initial spec for v0.2.2

    python-humanfriendly:
    - Update in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)
    - Update to 10.0

    python-jsondiff:
    - Update in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)
    - Update to version 1.3.0

    python-knack:
    - Update in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)
    - Update to version 0.9.0

    python-opencensus:
    - Include in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)
    - Disable Python2 build
    - Update to 0.8.0

    python-opencensus-context:
    - Include in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)

    python-opencensus-ext-threading:
    - Include in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)
    - Initial build version 0.1.2

    python-opentelemetry-api:
    - Include in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)
    - Version update to 1.5.0

    python-psutil:
    - Update in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)
    - update to 5.9.1
    - remove the dependency on net-tools, since it conflicts with busybox-hostnmame which is default on     MicroOS. (bsc#1184753)
    - Include in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)

    python-PyGithub:
    - Update to 1.43.5:

    python-pytest-asyncio:
    - Include in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)
    - Initial release of python-pytest-asyncio 0.8.0

    python-requests:
    - Update in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)

    python-websocket-client:
    - Update in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)
    - Update to version 1.3.2

    python-websockets:
    - Include in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)
    - update to 9.1:

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

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

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:2783-1 advisory.

    grpc:
    - Update in SLE-15 (bsc#1197726, bsc#1144068)

    protobuf:
    - Fix a potential DoS issue in protobuf-cpp and protobuf-python, CVE-2022-1941, bsc#1203681
    - Fix a potential DoS issue when parsing with binary data in  protobuf-java, CVE-2022-3171, bsc#1204256
    - Fix potential Denial of Service in protobuf-java in the parsing procedure for binary data,     CVE-2021-22569, bsc#1194530
    - Add missing dependency of python subpackages on python-six (bsc#1177127)
    - Updated to version 3.9.2 (bsc#1162343)
      * Remove OSReadLittle* due to alignment requirements.
      * Don't use unions and instead use memcpy for the type swaps.
    - Disable LTO (bsc#1133277)

    python-aiocontextvars:
    - Include in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)

    python-avro:
    - Include in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)
    - Update in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)

    python-cryptography:
    - update to 3.3.2 (bsc#1182066, CVE-2020-36242, bsc#1198331)
      * SECURITY ISSUE: Fixed a bug where certain sequences of update()         calls when symmetrically encrypting very large payloads (>2GB) could         result in an integer overflow, leading to buffer overflows.
      CVE-2020-36242

    python-cryptography-vectors:
    - update to 3.2 (bsc#1178168, CVE-2020-25659):
      * CVE-2020-25659: Attempted to make RSA PKCS#1v1.5 decryption more constant time,         to protect against Bleichenbacher vulnerabilities. Due to limitations imposed         by our API, we cannot completely mitigate this vulnerability.
      * Support for OpenSSL 1.0.2 has been removed.
      * Added basic support for PKCS7 signing (including SMIME) via PKCS7SignatureBuilder.
    - update to 3.3.2 (bsc#1198331)

    python-Deprecated:
    - Include in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)
    - update to 1.2.13:

    python-google-api-core:
    - Update to 1.14.2

    python-googleapis-common-protos:
    - Update to 1.6.0

    python-grpcio-gcp:
    - Initial spec for v0.2.2

    python-humanfriendly:
    - Update in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)
    - Update to 10.0

    python-jsondiff:
    - Update in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)
    - Update to version 1.3.0

    python-knack:
    - Update in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)
    - Update to version 0.9.0

    python-opencensus:
    - Include in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)
    - Disable Python2 build
    - Update to 0.8.0

    python-opencensus-context:
    - Include in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)

    python-opencensus-ext-threading:
    - Include in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)
    - Initial build version 0.1.2

    python-opentelemetry-api:
    - Include in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)
    - Version update to 1.5.0

    python-psutil:
    - Update in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)
    - update to 5.9.1
    - remove the dependency on net-tools, since it conflicts with busybox-hostnmame which is default on     MicroOS. (bsc#1184753)
    - Include in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)

    python-PyGithub:
    - Update to 1.43.5:

    python-pytest-asyncio:
    - Include in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)
    - Initial release of python-pytest-asyncio 0.8.0

    python-requests:
    - Update in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)

    python-websocket-client:
    - Update in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)
    - Update to version 1.3.2

    python-websockets:
    - Include in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)
    - update to 9.1:

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

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

Security fix for CVE-2018-1000518

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
423193	SCA: security update for websockets (GHSA-6g87-ff9q-v847)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	high
423193	SCA: security update for websockets (GHSA-6g87-ff9q-v847)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	high
181751	SUSE SLES15: libprotobuf-lite20 / python2-cryptography / python2-psutil / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:2783-2)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
178008	SUSE SLES15: libprotobuf-lite20 / python2-cryptography / python2-psutil / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:2783-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
120408	Fedora 28 : python-websockets (2018-4dd851152c)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

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