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Amazon Linux 2 : python-pip (ALAS-2025-2935)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 243247

Synopsis

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

Description

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2025-2935 advisory.

 urllib3 is a user-friendly HTTP client library for Python. Prior to 2.5.0, it is possible to disable redirects for all requests by instantiating a PoolManager and specifying retries in a way that disable redirects. By default, requests and botocore users are not affected. An application attempting to mitigate SSRF or open redirect vulnerabilities by disabling redirects at the PoolManager level will remain vulnerable. This issue has been patched in version 2.5.0. (CVE-2025-50181)

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-pip' to update your system.

See Also

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

https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2025-50181.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com//AL2/ALAS2-2025-2935.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 243247

File Name: al2_ALAS-2025-2935.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/31/2025

Updated: 7/31/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-50181

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python2-pip, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python3-pip, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python-pip-wheel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/30/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/18/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-50181