The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:10140 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):

    * cpython: Tarfile extracts filtered members when errorlevel=0 (CVE-2025-4435)

    * cpython: Bypass extraction filter to modify file metadata outside extraction directory (CVE-2024-12718)

    * cpython: Extraction filter bypass for linking outside extraction directory (CVE-2025-4330)

    * python: cpython: Arbitrary writes via tarfile realpath overflow (CVE-2025-4517)

    * cpython: python: Bypassing extraction filter to create symlinks to arbitrary targets outside extraction     directory (CVE-2025-4138)

    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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

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RHEL 10 : python3.12 (RHSA-2025:10140)

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