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RHEL 9 : python-requests (RHSA-2025:7049)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 235796

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:7049 advisory.

 Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language, which includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems.

 Security Fix(es):

 * requests: subsequent requests to the same host ignore cert verification (CVE-2024-35195)

 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 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-requests package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:7049.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2282114

http://www.nessus.org/u?a7e51e86

http://www.nessus.org/u?b4c59ebd

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7049

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 235796

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-7049.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/13/2025

Updated: 5/13/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-35195

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-requests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-requests%2bsecurity, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-requests%2bsocks, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-requests

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: 5/13/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/20/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-35195

CWE: 670

RHSA: 2025:7049