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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS : AIOHTTP vulnerabilities (USN-7642-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 242337

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7642-1 advisory.

 Ben Kallus discovered that AIOHTTP did not correctly parse HTTP headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform request smuggling. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-47627)

 Ivan Novikov discovered that AIOHTTP did not properly validate certain inputs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform request smuggling. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-49081, CVE-2023-49082)

 Paul J. Dorn discovered that AIOHTTP did not properly validate certain inputs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform request smuggling. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-23829)

 Takeshi Kaneko discovered that AIOHTTP did not properly sanitize certain inputs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. (CVE-2024-27306)

 It was discovered that AIOHTTP did not correctly handle certain POST requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-30251)

 Jeppe Bonde Weikop discovered that AIOHTTP did not correctly handle parsing newlines in certain inputs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform request smuggling. (CVE-2024-52304)

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 python3-aiohttp package.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7642-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 242337

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7642-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/18/2025

Updated: 7/18/2025

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-47627

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 5.5

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-23829

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-aiohttp, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts

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: 7/17/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/14/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-47627, CVE-2023-49081, CVE-2023-49082, CVE-2024-23829, CVE-2024-27306, CVE-2024-30251, CVE-2024-52304

USN: 7642-1