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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-36039

medium Nessus Plugin ID 229338

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - PyMySQL through 1.1.0 allows SQL injection if used with untrusted JSON input because keys are not escaped by escape_dict. (CVE-2024-36039)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2024-36039

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-36039

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 229338

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2024_36039.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/5/2025

Updated: 9/10/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-36039

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pymysql, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-pymysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pymysql, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python39-pymysql, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-pymysql, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-pymysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python38-pymysql, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python2-pymysql, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python38-pymysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-pymysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-pymysql

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/21/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-36039