The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:6914 advisory.

    pip is a package management system used to install and manage software packages written in Python. Many     packages can be found in the Python Package Index (PyPI). pip is a recursive acronym that can stand for     either Pip Installs Packages or Pip Installs Python.

    Security Fix(es):

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

    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 8.9 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 this issue 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 a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:7151 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: tarfile module directory traversal (CVE-2007-4559)

    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 8.9 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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2023-6494 advisory.

    - Security fixes for CVE-2023-40217 and CVE-2023-41105     Resolves: RHEL-3045, RHEL-3269
    - Fix symlink handling in the fix for CVE-2023-24329     Resolves: rhbz#263261
    - Security fix for CVE-2007-4559     Resolves: rhbz#263261

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 remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2023-6914 advisory.

    - Use tarfile.data_filter for extracting (CVE-2007-4559, PEP-721, PEP-706)     Resolves: RHBZ#2218249

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle 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.

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2023-7176 advisory.

    [9.0.3-23]
    - Use tarfile.data_filter for extracting (CVE-2007-4559, PEP-721, PEP-706)     Resolves: RHBZ#2218241

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle 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.

According to the versions of the python3 packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - Directory traversal vulnerability in the (1) extract and (2) extractall functions in the tarfile module in     Python allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) sequence in     filenames in a TAR archive, a related issue to CVE-2001-1267. (CVE-2007-4559)

  - An issue in the urllib.parse component of Python before 3.11.4 allows attackers to bypass blocklisting     methods by supplying a URL that starts with blank characters. (CVE-2023-24329)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-46374d2703 advisory.

    Security fix for CVE-2007-4559.

    ----

    Fix tests for XMLPullParser with Expat 2.6.0

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 python3 installed on the remote CBL Mariner 2.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2007-4559 advisory.

  - Directory traversal vulnerability in the (1) extract and (2) extractall functions in the tarfile module in     Python allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) sequence in     filenames in a TAR archive, a related issue to CVE-2001-1267. (CVE-2007-4559)

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

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Directory traversal vulnerability in the (1) extract and (2) extractall functions in the tarfile module in     Python allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) sequence in     filenames in a TAR archive, a related issue to CVE-2001-1267. (CVE-2007-4559)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2025-924 advisory.

    Directory traversal vulnerability in the (1) extract and (2) extractall functions in the tarfile module in     Python allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) sequence in     filenames in a TAR archive, a related issue to CVE-2001-1267. (CVE-2007-4559)

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

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ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
185699	RHEL 8 : python3.11-pip (RHSA-2023:6914)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	11/14/2023	11/7/2024	critical
185706	RHEL 8 : python3 (RHSA-2023:7151)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	11/14/2023	11/7/2024	critical
185849	Oracle Linux 9 : python3.11 (ELSA-2023-6494)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	11/16/2023	9/9/2025	high
186107	Oracle Linux 8 : python3.11-pip (ELSA-2023-6914)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	11/21/2023	9/9/2025	critical
186132	Oracle Linux 8 : python-pip (ELSA-2023-7176)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	11/21/2023	9/9/2025	critical
189042	EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : python3 (EulerOS-SA-2023-2663)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	1/16/2024	1/16/2024	high
189052	EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : python3 (EulerOS-SA-2023-2705)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	1/16/2024	1/16/2024	high
194678	Fedora 40 : python3.6 (2024-46374d2703)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	4/29/2024	11/15/2024	critical
201797	CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: python3 (CVE-2007-4559)	Nessus	MarinerOS Local Security Checks	7/3/2024	4/26/2025	critical
217052	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2007-4559	Nessus	Misc.	3/3/2025	9/29/2025	critical
233682	Amazon Linux 2023 : python3.11-pip, python3.11-pip-wheel (ALAS2023-2025-924)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	4/1/2025	10/30/2025	critical

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