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RockyLinux 8 : python39:3.9 and python39-devel:3.9 (RLSA-2023:7034)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 299292

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-2023:7034 advisory.

 * python: tarfile module directory traversal (CVE-2007-4559)

 * python-requests: Unintended leak of Proxy-Authorization header (CVE-2023-32681)

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-2023:7034

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209469

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263261

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 299292

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2023-7034.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 2/17/2026

Updated: 2/17/2026

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: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2007-4559

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-32681

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-pyparsing, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cython, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-py, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:numpy, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-six, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:pyyaml, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:numpy-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-numpy, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-lxml-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-scipy-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-more-itertools, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-pytest, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-pycparser, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-mod_wsgi, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-numpy-f2py, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-attrs, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-pycparser, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:pyyaml-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-ply, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-packaging, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-pymysql, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-pyyaml, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-wheel-wheel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-chardet, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:scipy, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-lxml-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python3x-six, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-iniconfig, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-wheel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-cffi, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-ply, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cython-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:pytest, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-psutil, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-cython, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-requests, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-requests, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-more-itertools, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-numpy-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-numpy-doc, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-wheel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-psutil, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-pluggy, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-pybind11-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:scipy-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-pymysql, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-scipy, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-cffi-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-psutil-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-pysocks, 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:python-cffi-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-psutil-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-cython-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-packaging, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:mod_wsgi, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-py, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-pluggy, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-wcwidth, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-lxml, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-pybind11, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-iniconfig, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-attrs, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-toml, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-cffi, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-toml, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-pyyaml-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-chardet, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python-wcwidth, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python39-pysocks

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/17/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/27/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4559, CVE-2023-32681