The version of python3 installed on the remote host is prior to 3.7.9-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2021-1640 advisory.
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-2021-23336)
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)
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
##
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory ALAS-2021-1640.
##
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(149865);
script_version("1.3");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/12/29");
script_cve_id("CVE-2021-3426", "CVE-2021-23336");
script_xref(name:"ALAS", value:"2021-1640");
script_name(english:"Amazon Linux 2 : python3 (ALAS-2021-1640)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The version of python3 installed on the remote host is prior to 3.7.9-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple
vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2021-1640 advisory.
- 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-2021-23336)
- 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)
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2021-1640.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23336");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3426");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Run 'yum update python3' to update your system.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2021-23336");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2021/01/28");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2021/05/20");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2021/05/24");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python3");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python3-debug");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python3-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python3-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python3-libs");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python3-test");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python3-tkinter");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python3-tools");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2021-2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/AmazonLinux/release", "Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/release");
if (isnull(release) || !strlen(release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^AL(A|\d)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (os_ver != "2")
{
if (os_ver == 'A') os_ver = 'AMI';
audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux 2", "Amazon Linux " + os_ver);
}
if (!get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
pkgs = [
{'reference':'python3-3.7.9-1.amzn2.0.3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python3-3.7.9-1.amzn2.0.3', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python3-3.7.9-1.amzn2.0.3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python3-debug-3.7.9-1.amzn2.0.3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python3-debug-3.7.9-1.amzn2.0.3', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python3-debug-3.7.9-1.amzn2.0.3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python3-debuginfo-3.7.9-1.amzn2.0.3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python3-debuginfo-3.7.9-1.amzn2.0.3', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python3-debuginfo-3.7.9-1.amzn2.0.3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python3-devel-3.7.9-1.amzn2.0.3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python3-devel-3.7.9-1.amzn2.0.3', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python3-devel-3.7.9-1.amzn2.0.3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python3-libs-3.7.9-1.amzn2.0.3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python3-libs-3.7.9-1.amzn2.0.3', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python3-libs-3.7.9-1.amzn2.0.3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python3-test-3.7.9-1.amzn2.0.3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python3-test-3.7.9-1.amzn2.0.3', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python3-test-3.7.9-1.amzn2.0.3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python3-tkinter-3.7.9-1.amzn2.0.3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python3-tkinter-3.7.9-1.amzn2.0.3', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python3-tkinter-3.7.9-1.amzn2.0.3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python3-tools-3.7.9-1.amzn2.0.3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python3-tools-3.7.9-1.amzn2.0.3', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python3-tools-3.7.9-1.amzn2.0.3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
];
flag = 0;
foreach package_array ( pkgs ) {
reference = NULL;
release = NULL;
cpu = NULL;
el_string = NULL;
rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
allowmaj = NULL;
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) release = package_array['release'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cpu'])) cpu = package_array['cpu'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['el_string'])) el_string = package_array['el_string'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = package_array['allowmaj'];
if (reference && release) {
if (rpm_check(release:release, cpu:cpu, reference:reference, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj)) flag++;
}
}
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : rpm_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "python3 / python3-debug / python3-debuginfo / etc");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
amazon | linux | python3 | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python3 |
amazon | linux | python3-debug | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python3-debug |
amazon | linux | python3-debuginfo | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python3-debuginfo |
amazon | linux | python3-devel | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python3-devel |
amazon | linux | python3-libs | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python3-libs |
amazon | linux | python3-test | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python3-test |
amazon | linux | python3-tkinter | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python3-tkinter |
amazon | linux | python3-tools | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python3-tools |
amazon | linux | 2 | cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2 |