RHEL 9 : python-tornado (RHSA-2023:6523)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 185117

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for python-tornado.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:6523 advisory.

Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library that provides an open source version of scalable, non-blocking web server and tools.

Security Fix(es):

* python-tornado: open redirect vulnerability in StaticFileHandler under certain configurations (CVE-2023-28370)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 RHEL python-tornado package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:6523.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 185117

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-6523.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/7/2023

Updated: 3/12/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 9.14

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-28370

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-tornado, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-tornado

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: 11/7/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/25/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-28370

CWE: 601

RHSA: 2023:6523

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