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EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.5.0 : PyYAML (EulerOS-SA-2020-1083)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 132837

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the PyYAML package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - In PyYAML before 4.1, the yaml.load() API could execute arbitrary code. In other words, yaml.safe_load is not used.(CVE-2017-18342)

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

Solution

Update the affected PyYAML package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3f6a4a72

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 132837

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2020-1083.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Published: 1/13/2020

Updated: 4/1/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-18342

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:python2-pyyaml, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:3.0.5.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/13/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-18342