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MiracleLinux 8 : python39:3.9 and python39-devel:3.9 (AXSA:2024-8429:01)

high Nessus Plugin ID 293254

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote MiracleLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the AXSA:2024-8429:01 advisory.

 * pypa-setuptools: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in package_index.py (CVE-2022-40897)
 * python-cryptography: memory corruption via immutable objects (CVE-2023-23931)
 * python: Parsing errors in email/_parseaddr.py lead to incorrect value in email address part of tuple (CVE-2023-27043)
 * python-urllib3: Cookie request header isn't stripped during cross-origin redirects (CVE-2023-43804)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux 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://tsn.miraclelinux.com/en/node/19613

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 293254

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2024-8429.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 1/20/2026

Updated: 1/20/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-43804

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 7.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-40897

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/29/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/22/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-40897, CVE-2023-23931, CVE-2023-27043, CVE-2023-43804