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RockyLinux 8 : python39:3.9 (RLSA-2025:23530)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 279075

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote RockyLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2025:23530 advisory.

 * 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)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux 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 packages.

See Also

https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2025:23530

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2294682

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2321440

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2325776

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2343237

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2366509

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370010

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370014

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370016

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2372426

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2373234

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2402342

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2408891

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 279075

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2025-23530.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 12/18/2025

Updated: 12/24/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RockyLinux/release, Host/RockyLinux/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

IAVA: 2025-A-0444