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CentOS 8 : python3 (CESA-2023:5997)

2024-02-0800:00:00
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centos 8
python vulnerability
tls client authentication
data exfiltration
cve-2023-40217
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The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CESA-2023:5997 advisory.

  • An issue was discovered in Python before 3.8.18, 3.9.x before 3.9.18, 3.10.x before 3.10.13, and 3.11.x before 3.11.5. It primarily affects servers (such as HTTP servers) that use TLS client authentication. If a TLS server-side socket is created, receives data into the socket buffer, and then is closed quickly, there is a brief window where the SSLSocket instance will detect the socket as not connected and won’t initiate a handshake, but buffered data will still be readable from the socket buffer. This data will not be authenticated if the server-side TLS peer is expecting client certificate authentication, and is indistinguishable from valid TLS stream data. Data is limited in size to the amount that will fit in the buffer. (The TLS connection cannot directly be used for data exfiltration because the vulnerable code path requires that the connection be closed on initialization of the SSLSocket.) (CVE-2023-40217)

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 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The package checks in this plugin were extracted from
# Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2023:5997. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Red Hat, Inc.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(190186);
  script_version("1.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/02/08");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2023-40217");
  script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2023:5997");

  script_name(english:"CentOS 8 : python3 (CESA-2023:5997)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the
CESA-2023:5997 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in Python before 3.8.18, 3.9.x before 3.9.18, 3.10.x before 3.10.13, and 3.11.x
    before 3.11.5. It primarily affects servers (such as HTTP servers) that use TLS client authentication. If
    a TLS server-side socket is created, receives data into the socket buffer, and then is closed quickly,
    there is a brief window where the SSLSocket instance will detect the socket as not connected and won't
    initiate a handshake, but buffered data will still be readable from the socket buffer. This data will not
    be authenticated if the server-side TLS peer is expecting client certificate authentication, and is
    indistinguishable from valid TLS stream data. Data is limited in size to the amount that will fit in the
    buffer. (The TLS connection cannot directly be used for data exfiltration because the vulnerable code path
    requires that the connection be closed on initialization of the SSLSocket.) (CVE-2023-40217)

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://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5997");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2023-40217");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2023/08/25");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2023/10/23");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2024/02/08");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:centos:centos:8-stream");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:platform-python");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:platform-python-debug");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:platform-python-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-idle");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-libs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-test");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-tkinter");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"CentOS Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/CentOS/release", "Host/CentOS/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");

  exit(0);
}


include('rpm.inc');
include('rhel.inc');

if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/CentOS/release');
if (isnull(os_release) || 'CentOS' >!< os_release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'CentOS');
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "CentOS(?: Stream)?(?: Linux)? release ([0-9]+)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'CentOS');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if ('CentOS Stream' >!< os_release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'CentOS 8-Stream');
if (!rhel_check_release(operator: 'ge', os_version: os_ver, rhel_version: '8')) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'CentOS 8.x', 'CentOS ' + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item('Host/CentOS/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu && 'ppc' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'CentOS', cpu);

var pkgs = [
    {'reference':'platform-python-3.6.8-51.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'platform-python-3.6.8-51.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'platform-python-debug-3.6.8-51.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'platform-python-debug-3.6.8-51.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'platform-python-devel-3.6.8-51.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'platform-python-devel-3.6.8-51.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'python3-idle-3.6.8-51.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'python3-idle-3.6.8-51.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'python3-libs-3.6.8-51.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'python3-libs-3.6.8-51.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'python3-test-3.6.8-51.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'python3-test-3.6.8-51.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'python3-tkinter-3.6.8-51.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'python3-tkinter-3.6.8-51.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
];

var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var reference = NULL;
  var _release = NULL;
  var sp = NULL;
  var _cpu = NULL;
  var el_string = NULL;
  var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
  var epoch = NULL;
  var allowmaj = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = 'CentOS-' + package_array['release'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['sp'])) sp = package_array['sp'];
  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['epoch'])) epoch = package_array['epoch'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = package_array['allowmaj'];
  if (reference && _release) {
    if (rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, 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
{
  var tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'platform-python / platform-python-debug / platform-python-devel / etc');
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
centoscentos8-streamcpe:/o:centos:centos:8-stream
centoscentosplatform-pythonp-cpe:/a:centos:centos:platform-python
centoscentosplatform-python-debugp-cpe:/a:centos:centos:platform-python-debug
centoscentosplatform-python-develp-cpe:/a:centos:centos:platform-python-devel
centoscentospython3-idlep-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-idle
centoscentospython3-libsp-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-libs
centoscentospython3-testp-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-test
centoscentospython3-tkinterp-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-tkinter