RHEL 8 : python27:2.7 (RHSA-2020:1605)

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RHEL 8 : python27:2.7 (RHSA-2020:1605)

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1605 advisory.

- python-requests: Redirect from HTTPS to HTTP does not remove Authorization header (CVE-2018-18074)

- python-urllib3: Cross-host redirect does not remove Authorization header allow for credential exposure (CVE-2018-20060)

- python: Cookie domain check returns incorrect results (CVE-2018-20852)

- python-urllib3: CRLF injection due to not encoding the '\r\n' sequence leading to possible attack on internal service (CVE-2019-11236)

- python-urllib3: Certification mishandle when error should be thrown (CVE-2019-11324)

- python: email.utils.parseaddr wrongly parses email addresses (CVE-2019-16056)

- python: XSS vulnerability in the documentation XML-RPC server in server_title field (CVE-2019-16935)

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 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 136044

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-1605.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/28/2020

Updated: 10/13/2021

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl, redhat_repos.nasl

Risk Information

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-16056

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:8.2, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:8.4, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.2, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.4, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.2, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.4, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_tus:8.2, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_tus:8.4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:babel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-nose-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-psycopg2-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-sqlalchemy-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-Cython, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-PyMySQL, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-attrs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-babel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-backports, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-backports-ssl_match_hostname, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-bson, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-chardet, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-coverage, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-dns, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-docs-info, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-docutils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-funcsigs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-idna, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-ipaddress, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-jinja2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-lxml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-markupsafe, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-mock, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-nose, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-numpy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-numpy-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-numpy-f2py, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pip, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pip-wheel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pluggy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-psycopg2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-psycopg2-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-psycopg2-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-py, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pygments, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pymongo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pymongo-gridfs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pysocks, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pytest, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pytest-mock, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pytz, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pyyaml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-requests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-rpm-macros, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-scipy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-setuptools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-setuptools-wheel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-setuptools_scm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-six, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-sqlalchemy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-tkinter, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-urllib3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-virtualenv, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-wheel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-wheel-wheel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/28/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/26/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-18074, CVE-2018-20060, CVE-2018-20852, CVE-2019-11236, CVE-2019-11324, CVE-2019-16056

BID: 108793, 108815, 109177

RHSA: 2020:1605

CWE: 20, 79, 113, 295, 522