The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:1764 advisory.

  - python: urllib: Regular expression DoS in AbstractBasicAuthHandler (CVE-2021-3733)

  - python: urllib: HTTP client possible infinite loop on a 100 Continue response (CVE-2021-3737)

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

  - python: urllib.parse does not sanitize URLs containing ASCII newline and tabs (CVE-2022-0391)

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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RHEL 8 : python38:3.8 and python38-devel:3.8 (RHSA-2022:1764)

high Nessus Plugin ID 161019

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Version 1.10 Apr 28, 2024, 2:25 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202404281425
Version 1.9 Oct 27, 2023, 4:19 PM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") Plugin Feed: 202310271619
Version 1.8 May 25, 2023, 3:03 PM Logic Changes (Added support for ppc64le architecture) Plugin Feed: 202305251503
Version 1.7 Jan 23, 2023, 9:47 PM Logic Changes (Added support for repository relative URLs) Plugin Feed: 202301232147
Version 1.6 Nov 21, 2022, 6:04 PM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202211211804