CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: python3 (CVE-2024-8088)

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-2024-8088 advisory.

• There is a HIGH severity vulnerability affecting the CPython zipfile module affecting zipfile.Path.
  Note that the more common API zipfile.ZipFile class is unaffected. When iterating over names of entries in a zip archive (for example, methods of zipfile.Path like namelist(), iterdir(), etc) the process can be put into an infinite loop with a maliciously crafted zip archive. This defect applies when reading only metadata or extracting the contents of the zip archive. Programs that are not handling user- controlled zip archives are not affected. (CVE-2024-8088)

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