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Amazon Linux 2 : python (ALAS-2025-2911)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 241750

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of python installed on the remote host is prior to 2.7.18-1. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2025-2911 advisory.

 The html.parser.HTMLParser class had worse-case quadratic complexity when processing certain crafted malformed inputs potentially leading to amplified denial-of-service. (CVE-2025-6069)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product 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

Run 'yum update python' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com//AL2/ALAS2-2025-2911.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-6069.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 241750

File Name: al2_ALAS-2025-2911.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/10/2025

Updated: 7/10/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-6069

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python-tools, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python-test, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python-debug, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python-libs, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:tkinter

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AmazonLinux/release, Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/10/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/17/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-6069

IAVA: 2025-A-0444