MiracleLinux 8 : python38:3.8 (AXSA:2021-2422:01)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 294499

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:2021-2422:01 advisory.

* python: CRLF injection via HTTP request method in httplib/http.client (CVE-2020-26116)
* python-lxml: mXSS due to the use of improper parser (CVE-2020-27783)
* python: Stack-based buffer overflow in PyCArg_repr in _ctypes/callproc.c (CVE-2021-3177)

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 294499

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2021-2422.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Miracle Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 1/20/2026

Updated: 1/20/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3177

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Threat Score: 2.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-27783

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-jinja2, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-numpy-f2py, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-six, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:pyyaml-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python-cryptography-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:cython-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:scipy-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-idle, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-ply, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-psycopg2, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-wheel, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-psycopg2-doc, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-numpy-doc, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-pymysql, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-urllib3, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-idna, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-libs, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-pip, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-setuptools-wheel, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-cryptography, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-babel, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-markupsafe, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-wheel-wheel, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-devel, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-test, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-tkinter, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python-psycopg2-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-chardet, cpe:/o:miracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-lxml, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-requests, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-mod_wsgi, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python-markupsafe-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-cython, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python-lxml-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-asn1crypto, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-cffi, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-setuptools, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:numpy-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-pysocks, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-pytz, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-scipy, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-pyyaml, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python-cffi-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-rpm-macros, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-psutil, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-numpy, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-psycopg2-tests, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python-psutil-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-debug, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-pip-wheel, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python38-pycparser

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: 9/19/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/30/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-26116, CVE-2020-27783, CVE-2021-3177

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