The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:3486-1 advisory.

  - There's a flaw in Python 3's pydoc. A local or adjacent attacker who discovers or is able to convince     another local or adjacent user to start a pydoc server could access the server and use it to disclose     sensitive information belonging to the other user that they would not normally be able to access. The     highest risk of this flaw is to data confidentiality. This flaw affects Python versions before 3.8.9,     Python versions before 3.9.3 and Python versions before 3.10.0a7. (CVE-2021-3426)

  - There's a flaw in urllib's AbstractBasicAuthHandler class. An attacker who controls a malicious HTTP     server that an HTTP client (such as web browser) connects to, could trigger a Regular Expression Denial of     Service (ReDOS) during an authentication request with a specially crafted payload that is sent by the     server to the client. The greatest threat that this flaw poses is to application availability.
    (CVE-2021-3733)

  - A flaw was found in python. An improperly handled HTTP response in the HTTP client code of python may     allow a remote attacker, who controls the HTTP server, to make the client script enter an infinite loop,     consuming CPU time. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. (CVE-2021-3737)

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

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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : python36 (SUSE-SU-2021:3486-1)

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