The remote Ubuntu 18.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5342-3 advisory.

    USN-5342-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Python. This update provides the corresponding fix for     CVE-2021-3426 for Ubuntu 18.04 ESM.



Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6891-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2015-20107)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly used regular expressions vulnerable to catastrophic     backtracking. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue     only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-1060, CVE-2018-1061)

    It was discovered that Python failed to initialize Expats hash salt. A remote attacker could possibly     use this issue to cause hash collisions, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu     14.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-14647)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain pickle files. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to consume memory, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2018-20406)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly validated the domain when handling cookies. An attacker could     possibly trick Python into sending cookies to the wrong domain. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2018-20852)

    Jonathan Birch and Panayiotis Panayiotou discovered that Python incorrectly handled Unicode encoding     during NFKC normalization. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. This     issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-9636, CVE-2019-10160)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly parsed certain email addresses. A remote attacker could possibly     use this issue to trick Python applications into accepting email addresses that should be denied. This     issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-16056)

    It was discovered that the Python documentation XML-RPC server incorrectly handled certain fields. A     remote attacker could use this issue to execute a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. This issue only     affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-16935)

    It was discovered that Python documentation had a misleading information. A security issue could be     possibly caused by wrong assumptions of this information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and     Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-17514)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly stripped certain characters from requests. A remote attacker     could use this issue to perform CRLF injection. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04     LTS. (CVE-2019-18348)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain TAR archives. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2019-20907)

    Colin Read and Nicolas Edet discovered that Python incorrectly handled parsing certain X509 certificates.
    An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Python to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This     issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-5010)

    It was discovered that incorrectly handled certain ZIP files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to     cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-9674)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain urls. A remote attacker could possibly use this     issue to perform CRLF injection attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-9740,     CVE-2019-9947)

    Sihoon Lee discovered that Python incorrectly handled the local_file: scheme. A remote attacker could     possibly use this issue to bypass blocklist meschanisms. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2019-9948)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain IP values. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2020-14422)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain character sequences. A remote attacker could     possibly use this issue to perform CRLF injection. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu     18.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-26116)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2020-27619, CVE-2021-3177)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain HTTP requests. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-8492)

    It was discovered that the Python stdlib ipaddress API incorrectly handled octal strings. A remote     attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a wide variety of attacks, including bypassing certain     access restrictions. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-29921)

    David Schwrer discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to expose sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-3426)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain RFCs. An attacker could possibly use this issue     to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-3733)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain server responses. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-3737)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain FTP requests. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to expose sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04     LTS. (CVE-2021-4189)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2022-0391)

    Devin Jeanpierre discovered that Python incorrectly handled sockets when the multiprocessing module was     being used. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code and escalate     privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-42919)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were     tricked into running a specially crafted input, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a     denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2022-45061, CVE-2023-24329)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain scripts. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to execute arbitrary code or cause a crash. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu     18.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-48560)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain plist files. If a user or an automated system     were tricked into processing a specially crafted plist file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to     consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu     18.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-48564)

    It was discovered that Python did not properly handle XML entity declarations in plist files. An attacker     could possibly use this vulnerability to perform an XML External Entity (XXE) injection, resulting in a     denial of service or information disclosure. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04     LTS. (CVE-2022-48565)

    It was discovered that Python did not properly provide constant-time processing for a crypto operation. An     attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a timing attack and recover sensitive information. This     issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-48566)

    It was discovered that Python instances of ssl.SSLSocket were vulnerable to a bypass of the TLS handshake.
    An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications to treat unauthenticated received data     before TLS handshake as authenticated data after TLS handshake. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS,     Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-40217)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled null bytes when normalizing pathnames. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to bypass certain filename checks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2023-41105)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled privilege with certain parameters. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to maintain the original processes' groups before starting the new process. This     issue only affected Ubuntu 23.10. (CVE-2023-6507)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled symlinks in temp files. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to modify the permissions of files. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04     LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 23.10. (CVE-2023-6597)

    It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain crafted zip files. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to crash the program, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2024-0450)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2021:4160 advisory.

  - python-lxml: Missing input sanitization for formaction HTML5 attributes may lead to XSS (CVE-2021-28957)

  - python-ipaddress: Improper input validation of octal strings (CVE-2021-29921)

  - python-urllib3: ReDoS in the parsing of authority part of URL (CVE-2021-33503)

  - python: Information disclosure via pydoc (CVE-2021-3426)

  - python-pip: Incorrect handling of unicode separators in git references (CVE-2021-3572)

  - python: urllib: Regular expression DoS in AbstractBasicAuthHandler (CVE-2021-3733)

  - python: urllib: HTTP client possible infinite loop on a 100 Continue response (CVE-2021-3737)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:4160 advisory.

    Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language, which includes modules,     classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to     many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems.

    Security Fix(es):

    * python: Information disclosure via pydoc (CVE-2021-3426)

    * python: urllib: Regular expression DoS in AbstractBasicAuthHandler (CVE-2021-3733)

    * python-lxml: Missing input sanitization for formaction HTML5 attributes may lead to XSS (CVE-2021-28957)

    * python-ipaddress: Improper input validation of octal strings (CVE-2021-29921)

    * python-urllib3: ReDoS in the parsing of authority part of URL (CVE-2021-33503)

    * python-pip: Incorrect handling of unicode separators in git references (CVE-2021-3572)

    * python: urllib: HTTP client possible infinite loop on a 100 Continue response (CVE-2021-3737)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Additional Changes:

    For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 Release Notes     linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2021-4160 advisory.

    - Security fix for CVE-2021-28957     Resolves: rhbz#1941534
    - Fixes CVE-2020-27783 and another vulnerability in the HTML Cleaner
    - Fix for CVE-2021-33503 Catastrophic backtracking in URL authority parser     Resolves: rhbz#1968074
    - Fix CVE-2021-29921: Improper input validation of octal strings in the ipaddress module     Resolves: rhbz#1957458
    - Security fix for CVE-2021-3426: information disclosure via pydoc     Resolves: rhbz#1935913

    python3x-pip
    - Fix for CVE-2021-33503 Catastrophic backtracking in URL authority parser     Resolves: rhbz#1968074
    - Fix for CVE-2021-3572 - pip incorrectly handled unicode separators in git references     Resolves: rhbz#1962856

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of python36 installed on the remote host is prior to 3.6.12-1.21. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS-2021-1500 advisory.

    The package python/cpython is vulnerable to Web Cache Poisoning via urllib.parse.parse_qsl and     urllib.parse.parse_qs by using a vector called parameter cloaking. When the attacker can separate query     parameters using a semicolon (;), they can cause a difference in the interpretation of the request between     the proxy (running with default configuration) and the server. This can result in malicious requests being     cached as completely safe ones, as the proxy would usually not see the semicolon as a separator, and     therefore would not include it in a cache key of an unkeyed parameter. (CVE-2021-23336)

    No description is available for this CVE. (CVE-2021-3426)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of python34 installed on the remote host is prior to 3.4.10-1.55. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS-2021-1504 advisory.

    The package python/cpython is vulnerable to Web Cache Poisoning via urllib.parse.parse_qsl and     urllib.parse.parse_qs by using a vector called parameter cloaking. When the attacker can separate query     parameters using a semicolon (;), they can cause a difference in the interpretation of the request between     the proxy (running with default configuration) and the server. This can result in malicious requests being     cached as completely safe ones, as the proxy would usually not see the semicolon as a separator, and     therefore would not include it in a cache key of an unkeyed parameter. (CVE-2021-23336)

    There's a flaw in Python 3's pydoc. A local or adjacent attacker who discovers or is able to convince     another local or adjacent user to start a pydoc server could access the server and use it to disclose     sensitive information belonging to the other user that they would not normally be able to access. The     highest risk of this flaw is to data confidentiality. This flaw affects Python versions before 3.8.9,     Python versions before 3.9.3 and Python versions before 3.10.0a7. (CVE-2021-3426)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2021:4162 advisory.

  - python-psutil: Double free because of refcount mishandling (CVE-2019-18874)

  - python: Unsafe use of eval() on data retrieved via HTTP in the test suite (CVE-2020-27619)

  - python-jinja2: ReDoS vulnerability in the urlize filter (CVE-2020-28493)

  - python: Web cache poisoning via urllib.parse.parse_qsl and urllib.parse.parse_qs by using a semicolon in     query parameters (CVE-2021-23336)

  - python-lxml: Missing input sanitization for formaction HTML5 attributes may lead to XSS (CVE-2021-28957)

  - python-ipaddress: Improper input validation of octal strings (CVE-2021-29921)

  - python-urllib3: ReDoS in the parsing of authority part of URL (CVE-2021-33503)

  - python: Information disclosure via pydoc (CVE-2021-3426)

  - python-pip: Incorrect handling of unicode separators in git references (CVE-2021-3572)

  - python-babel: Relative path traversal allows attacker to load arbitrary locale files and     execute arbitrary code (CVE-2021-42771)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2024:0262 advisory.

    Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

    CVE-2019-18874:
    psutil (aka python-psutil) through 5.6.5 can have a double free. This occurs because of refcount     mishandling within a while or for loop that converts system data into a Python object.

    CVE-2019-20477:
    PyYAML 5.1 through 5.1.2 has insufficient restrictions on the load and load_all functions because of a     class deserialization issue, e.g., Popen is a class in the subprocess module. NOTE: this issue exists     because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-18342.

    CVE-2019-20907:
    In Lib/tarfile.py in Python through 3.8.3, an attacker is able to craft a TAR archive leading to an     infinite loop when opened by tarfile.open, because _proc_pax lacks header validation.

    CVE-2020-14343:
    A vulnerability was discovered in the PyYAML library in versions before 5.4, where it is susceptible to     arbitrary code execution when it processes untrusted YAML files through the full_load method or with the     FullLoader loader. Applications that use the library to process untrusted input may be vulnerable to this     flaw. This flaw allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system by abusing the     python/object/new constructor. This flaw is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-1747.

    CVE-2020-14422:
    Lib/ipaddress.py in Python through 3.8.3 improperly computes hash values in the IPv4Interface and     IPv6Interface classes, which might allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service if an application     is affected by the performance of a dictionary containing IPv4Interface or IPv6Interface objects, and this     attacker can cause many dictionary entries to be created. This is fixed in: v3.5.10, v3.5.10rc1; v3.6.12;
    v3.7.9; v3.8.4, v3.8.4rc1, v3.8.5, v3.8.6, v3.8.6rc1; v3.9.0, v3.9.0b4, v3.9.0b5, v3.9.0rc1, v3.9.0rc2.

    CVE-2020-27619:
    In Python 3 through 3.9.0, the Lib/test/multibytecodec_support.py CJK codec tests call eval() on content     retrieved via HTTP.

    CVE-2020-8492:
    Python 2.7 through 2.7.17, 3.5 through 3.5.9, 3.6 through 3.6.10, 3.7 through 3.7.6, and 3.8 through 3.8.1     allows an HTTP server to conduct Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attacks against a client     because of urllib.request.AbstractBasicAuthHandler catastrophic backtracking.

    CVE-2021-23336:
    The package python/cpython from 0 and before 3.6.13, from 3.7.0 and before 3.7.10, from 3.8.0 and before     3.8.8, from 3.9.0 and before 3.9.2 are vulnerable to Web Cache Poisoning via urllib.parse.parse_qsl and     urllib.parse.parse_qs by using a vector called parameter cloaking. When the attacker can separate query     parameters using a semicolon (;), they can cause a difference in the interpretation of the request between     the proxy (running with default configuration) and the server. This can result in malicious requests being     cached as completely safe ones, as the proxy would usually not see the semicolon as a separator, and     therefore would not include it in a cache key of an unkeyed parameter.

    CVE-2021-29921:
    In Python before 3,9,5, the ipaddress library mishandles leading zero characters in the octets of an IP     address string. This (in some situations) allows attackers to bypass access control that is based on IP     addresses.

    CVE-2021-3177:
    Python 3.x through 3.9.1 has a buffer overflow in PyCArg_repr in _ctypes/callproc.c, which may lead to     remote code execution in certain Python applications that accept floating-point numbers as untrusted     input, as demonstrated by a 1e300 argument to c_double.from_param. This occurs because sprintf is used     unsafely.

    CVE-2021-3426:
    There's a flaw in Python 3's pydoc. A local or adjacent attacker who discovers or is able to convince     another local or adjacent user to start a pydoc server could access the server and use it to disclose     sensitive information belonging to the other user that they would not normally be able to access. The     highest risk of this flaw is to data confidentiality. This flaw affects Python versions before 3.8.9,     Python versions before 3.9.3 and Python versions before 3.10.0a7.

    CVE-2021-3733:
    There's a flaw in urllib's AbstractBasicAuthHandler class. An attacker who controls a malicious HTTP     server that an HTTP client (such as web browser) connects to, could trigger a Regular Expression Denial of     Service (ReDOS) during an authentication request with a specially crafted payload that is sent by the     server to the client. The greatest threat that this flaw poses is to application availability.

    CVE-2021-3737:
    A flaw was found in python. An improperly handled HTTP response in the HTTP client code of python may     allow a remote attacker, who controls the HTTP server, to make the client script enter an infinite loop,     consuming CPU time. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

    CVE-2021-43818:
    lxml is a library for processing XML and HTML in the Python language. Prior to version 4.6.5, the HTML     Cleaner in lxml.html lets certain crafted script content pass through, as well as script content in SVG     files embedded using data URIs. Users that employ the HTML cleaner in a security relevant context should     upgrade to lxml 4.6.5 to receive a patch. There are no known workarounds available.

    CVE-2022-0391:
    A flaw was found in Python, specifically within the urllib.parse module. This module helps break Uniform     Resource Locator (URL) strings into components. The issue involves how the urlparse method does not     sanitize input and allows characters like '\r' and '\n' in the URL path. This flaw allows an attacker to     input a crafted URL, leading to injection attacks. This flaw affects Python versions prior to 3.10.0b1,     3.9.5, 3.8.11, 3.7.11 and 3.6.14.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Alibaba Cloud Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
183125	Ubuntu 18.04 ESM : Python vulnerability (USN-5342-3)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	10/16/2023	9/3/2025	medium
202187	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.10 : Python vulnerabilities (USN-6891-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	7/11/2024	9/3/2025	critical
155040	CentOS 8 : python39:3.9 and python39-devel:3.9 (CESA-2021:4160)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	11/11/2021	11/24/2023	critical
155200	RHEL 8 : python39:3.9 and python39-devel:3.9 (RHSA-2021:4160)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	11/11/2021	3/15/2025	critical
155967	Oracle Linux 8 : python39:3.9 / and / python39-devel:3.9 (ELSA-2021-4160)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	12/10/2021	11/2/2024	critical
149784	Amazon Linux AMI : python36 (ALAS-2021-1500)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	5/19/2021	12/11/2024	medium
149868	Amazon Linux AMI : python34 (ALAS-2021-1504)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	5/24/2021	12/11/2024	medium
155064	CentOS 8 : python38:3.8 and python38-devel:3.8 (CESA-2021:4162)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	11/11/2021	1/16/2024	critical
236082	Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0262: python38:3.8 and python38-devel:3.8 (ALINUX3-SA-2024:0262)	Nessus	Alibaba Cloud Linux Local Security Checks	5/14/2025	5/14/2025	critical

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