RHEL 8 : python39:3.9 (RHSA-2025:23530)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 279048

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for python39:3.9.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:23530 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):

* python: Invalid value for OpenSSL API may cause Buffer over-read when NPN is used (CVE-2024-5642)

* python: Virtual environment (venv) activation scripts don't quote paths (CVE-2024-9287)

* python: Improper validation of IPv6 and IPvFuture addresses (CVE-2024-11168)

* python: cpython: URL parser allowed square brackets in domain names (CVE-2025-0938)

* cpython: python: CPython DecodeError Handling Vulnerability (CVE-2025-4516)

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

* cpython: python: 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)

* cpython: Python HTMLParser quadratic complexity (CVE-2025-6069)

* cpython: python: Python zipfile End of Central Directory (EOCD) Locator record offset not checked (CVE-2025-8291)

* python: Quadratic complexity in os.path.expandvars() with user-controlled template (CVE-2025-6075)

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.

Solution

Update the RHEL python39:3.9 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:23530.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 279048

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-23530.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 12/18/2025

Updated: 12/18/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-9287

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Threat Score: 1.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-0938

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pyyaml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-wcwidth, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-more-itertools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-psutil, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-pybind11-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-cffi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-lxml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-tkinter, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-requests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-iniconfig, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-requests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-rpm-macros, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-numpy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-pyparsing, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-idle, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-idna, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-urllib3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-lxml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-attrs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-iniconfig, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-packaging, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-wheel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pysocks, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pybind11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pymysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-pyyaml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-chardet, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-wheel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-packaging, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-pysocks, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3x-pyparsing, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-setuptools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-wheel-wheel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-pycparser, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-py, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-wcwidth, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3x-setuptools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-psycopg2-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pytest, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-toml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-urllib3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-ply, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-six, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-toml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-pip, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-numpy-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-setuptools-wheel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-pybind11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:numpy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-psutil, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-pluggy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-scipy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3x-pip, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.10, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-ply, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-more-itertools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-pymysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-psycopg2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pluggy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-cryptography, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-chardet, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mod_wsgi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-numpy-f2py, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cython, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-py, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-psycopg2-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-psycopg2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-pip-wheel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-cffi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:scipy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-pytest, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-attrs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-mod_wsgi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pycparser, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-cryptography, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-cython, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3x-six, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-idna

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/18/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/27/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-11168, CVE-2024-5642, CVE-2024-9287, CVE-2025-0938, CVE-2025-4138, CVE-2025-4330, CVE-2025-4435, CVE-2025-4516, CVE-2025-4517, CVE-2025-6069, CVE-2025-6075, CVE-2025-8291

CWE: 1287, 130, 1333, 20, 22, 416, 428, 706, 770

RHSA: 2025:23530

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RHEL 8 : python39:3.9 (RHSA-2025:23530)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 279048

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