Astropy is a project for astronomy in Python that fosters interoperability between Python astronomy packages. Version 5.3.2 of the Astropy core package is vulnerable to remote code execution due to improper input validation in the `TranformGraph().to_dot_graph` function. A malicious user can provide a command or a script file as a value to the `savelayout` argument, which will be placed as the first value in a list of arguments passed to `subprocess.Popen`. Although an error will be raised, the command or script will be executed successfully. Version 5.3.3 fixes this issue.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Astropy is a project for astronomy in Python that fosters interoperability between Python astronomy     packages. Version 5.3.2 of the Astropy core package is vulnerable to remote code execution due to improper     input validation in the `TranformGraph().to_dot_graph` function. A malicious user can provide a command or     a script file as a value to the `savelayout` argument, which will be placed as the first value in a list     of arguments passed to `subprocess.Popen`. Although an error will be raised, the command or script will be     executed successfully. Version 5.3.3 fixes this issue. (CVE-2023-41334)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

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

  - Astropy is a project for astronomy in Python that fosters interoperability between Python astronomy
    packages. Version 5.3.2 of the Astropy core package is vulnerable to remote code execution due to improper
    input validation in the `TranformGraph().to_dot_graph` function. A malicious user can provide a command or
    a script file as a value to the `savelayout` argument, which will be placed as the first value in a list
    of arguments passed to `subprocess.Popen`. Although an error will be raised, the command or script will be
    executed successfully. Version 5.3.3 fixes this issue. (CVE-2023-41334)

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-d329148f1e advisory.

    Security fix for CVE-2023-41334

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-d8ac19de55 advisory.

    Security fix for CVE-2023-41334

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

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
226309	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-41334	Nessus	Misc.	Local	high
415416	SCA: security update for astropy (GHSA-h2x6-5jx5-46hf)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
415416	SCA: security update for astropy (GHSA-h2x6-5jx5-46hf)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
201918	Fedora 40 : python-astropy (2024-d329148f1e)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	high
201899	Fedora 39 : python-astropy (2024-d8ac19de55)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	high

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