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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 / 25.04 : Requests vulnerabilities (USN-7568-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 240162

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 / 25.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7568-1 advisory.

 Dennis Brinkrolf and Tobias Funke discovered that Requests did not correctly handle certain HTTP headers.
 A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to leak sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-32681)

 Juho Forsn discovered that Requests did not correctly parse URLs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to leak sensitive information. (CVE-2024-47081)

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected python-requests, python-requests-whl and / or python3-requests packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7568-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 240162

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7568-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/18/2025

Updated: 6/18/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-32681

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-requests, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-requests, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-requests-whl, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/16/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/22/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-32681, CVE-2024-47081

USN: 7568-1