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CentOS 8 : python39:3.9 and python39-devel:3.9 (CESA-2022:1763)

high Nessus Plugin ID 160910

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CESA-2022:1763 advisory.

 - python-lxml: HTML Cleaner allows crafted and SVG embedded scripts to pass through (CVE-2021-43818)

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.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1763

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 160910

File Name: centos8_RHSA-2022-1763.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/10/2022

Updated: 5/10/2022

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-43818

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:8-stream, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python39, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python39-pymysql, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python39-cffi, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python39-chardet, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python39-cryptography, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python39-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python39-idle, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python39-idna, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python39-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python39-mod_wsgi, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python39-numpy, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python39-numpy-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python39-numpy-f2py, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python39-ply, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python39-psutil, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python39-psycopg2, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python39-psycopg2-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python39-psycopg2-tests, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python39-pycparser, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python39-pysocks, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python39-pyyaml, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python39-requests, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python39-rpm-macros, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python39-scipy, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python39-setuptools, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python39-setuptools-wheel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python39-six, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python39-test, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python39-tkinter, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python39-toml, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python39-urllib3, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python39-wheel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python39-wheel-wheel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/10/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/13/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-43818

RHSA: 2022:1763