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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.04 : pip vulnerabilities (USN-7762-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 265794

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7762-1 advisory.

 Dennis Brinkrolf and Tobias Funke discovered that Requests incorrectly leaked Proxy-Authorization headers.
 A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. This update addresses the issue in the Requests module bundled into pip in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-32681)

 It was discovered that urllib3 didn't strip HTTP body on status code 303 redirects under certain circumstances. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. This update addresses the issue in the urllib3 module bundled into pip in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-45803)

 Guido Vranken discovered that idna did not properly manage certain inputs, which could lead to significant resource consumption. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This update addresses the issue in the idna module bundled into pip in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
 (CVE-2024-3651)

 Juho Forsn discovered that Requests did not correctly parse URLs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to leak sensitive information. This update addresses the issue in the Requests module bundled into pip in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 25.04. (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 python3-pip and / or python3-pip-whl packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7762-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 265794

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7762-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/24/2025

Updated: 9/24/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, 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

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:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-3651

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-pip-whl, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-pip

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: 9/23/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/22/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-32681, CVE-2023-45803, CVE-2024-3651, CVE-2024-47081

USN: 7762-1