SUSE SLES15 Security Update : python-pip (SUSE-SU-2023:0516-2)

high Nessus Plugin ID 171916

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:0516-2 advisory.

- Add wheel subpackage with the generated wheel for this package (bsc#1176262, CVE-2019-20916).

- Make wheel a separate build run to avoid the setuptools/wheel build cycle.

- Switch this package to use update-alternatives for all files in %{_bindir} so it doesn't collide with the versions on 'the latest' versions of Python interpreter (jsc#SLE-18038, bsc#1195831).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

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 python2-pip, python3-pip and / or python3-pip-wheel packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 171916

File Name: suse_SU-2023-0516-2.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 2/25/2023

Updated: 6/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-20916

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 7.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-pip, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-pip-wheel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python2-pip, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/24/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/3/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-20916

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:0516-2

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