Unity Linux 20.1050e / 20.1060e / 20.1070e Security Update: python3 (UTSA-2025-992150)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 280078

Synopsis

The Unity Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2025-992150 advisory.

Allows modifying some file metadata (e.g. last modified) with filter=dataor file permissions (chmod) with filter=tarof files outside the extraction directory.
You are affected by this vulnerability if using the tarfilemodule to extract untrusted tar archives using TarFile.extractall()or TarFile.extract()using the filter=parameter with a value of dataor tar. See the tarfile extraction filters documentation https://docs.python.org/3/library/tarfile.html#tarfile-extraction-filter for more information. Only Python versions 3.12 or later are affected by these vulnerabilities, earlier versions don't include the extraction filter feature.

Note that for Python 3.14 or later the default value of filter=changed from no filtering to `data, so if you are relying on this new default behavior then your usage is also affected.

Note that none of these vulnerabilities significantly affect the installation of source distributions which are tar archives as source distributions already allow arbitrary code execution during the build process. However when evaluating source distributions it's important to avoid installing source distributions with suspicious links.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Unity Linux 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

Update the affected python3 package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 280078

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-992150.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: Local

Family: Unity Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 12/26/2025

Updated: 9/22/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.2

Percentile: 51.14

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-12718

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/26/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/3/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-12718

Detections

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