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TencentOS Server 4: python-waitress (TSSA-2024:1044)

🗓️ 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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 nessus
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TencentOS Server 4 updates python-waitress to fix two vulnerabilities.

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#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Tencent Linux Security Advisory TSSA-2024:1044.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(276077);
  script_version("1.1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2025/11/20");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2024-49768", "CVE-2024-49769");

  script_name(english:"TencentOS Server 4: python-waitress (TSSA-2024:1044)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote TencentOS Server 4 host is missing one or more security updates.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The version of Tencent Linux installed on the remote TencentOS Server 4 host is prior to tested version. It is,
therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the TSSA-2024:1044 advisory.

    Package updates are available for TencentOS Server 4 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

    CVE-2024-49768:
    Waitress is a Web Server Gateway Interface server for Python 2 and 3. A remote client may send a request
    that is exactly recv_bytes (defaults to 8192) long, followed by a secondary request using HTTP pipelining.
    When request lookahead is disabled (default) we won't read any more requests, and when the first request
    fails due to a parsing error, we simply close the connection. However when request lookahead is enabled,
    it is possible to process and receive the first request, start sending the error message back to the
    client while we read the next request and queue it. This will allow the secondary request to be serviced
    by the worker thread while the connection should be closed. Waitress 3.0.1 fixes the race condition. As a
    workaround, disable channel_request_lookahead, this is set to 0 by default disabling this feature.

    CVE-2024-49769:
    Waitress is a Web Server Gateway Interface server for Python 2 and 3. When a remote client closes the
    connection before waitress has had the opportunity to call getpeername() waitress won't correctly clean up
    the connection leading to the main thread attempting to write to a socket that no longer exists, but not
    removing it from the list of sockets to attempt to process. This leads to a busy-loop calling the write
    function. A remote attacker could run waitress out of available sockets with very little resources
    required. Waitress 3.0.1 contains fixes that remove the race condition.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Tencent 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.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://mirrors.tencent.com/tlinux/errata/tssa-20241044.xml");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/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:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss4_vector", value:"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss4_threat_vector", value:"CVSS:4.0/E:U");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2024-49768");

  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:"2024/10/29");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2024/12/10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2025/11/20");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:tencent:tencentos_server:4");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:tencent:tencentos_server:python-waitress");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

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

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2025 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info2.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/etc/os-release", "Host/TencentOS/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");

  exit(0);
}


include('rpm2.inc');

if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_product = get_kb_item('installed_os/local/SSH/0/product');
if (isnull(os_product) || 'TencentOS' >!< os_product) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'TencentOS');
var os_version = get_kb_item('installed_os/local/SSH/0/version');
if (isnull(os_version)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'TencentOS');
if (! preg(pattern:"^4([^0-9]|$)", string:os_version)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'TencentOS 4.x', 'TencentOS ' + os_version);

if (!get_kb_item('Host/TencentOS/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) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'TencentOS', cpu);

var constraints = [
  {
    'release': '4',
    'pkgs': [
      {'reference':'python3-waitress-2.1.2-8.tl4', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
    ]
  }
];

var os_release = get_one_kb_item('installed_os/local/SSH/0/release');
var os_sp = get_one_kb_item('Host/*/minor_release');

var flag = 0;
var reference;
var sp;
var _cpu;
var el_string;
var rpm_spec_vers_cmp;
var epoch;
var allowmaj;
var exists_check;
var cves;
foreach var constraint ( constraints ) {
  # Check that the target release is equal to the affected release
  if (!empty_or_null(constraint['release'])){
    if (constraint['release'] != os_release) continue;
  }
  if (!empty_or_null(constraint['sp'])){
    if (constraint['sp'] != os_sp) continue;
  }
  foreach var pkg ( constraint['pkgs'] ) {
    reference = NULL;
    sp = NULL;
    _cpu = NULL;
    el_string = NULL;
    rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
    epoch = NULL;
    allowmaj = NULL;
    exists_check = NULL;
    cves = NULL;
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['reference'])) reference = pkg['reference'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['sp'])) sp = pkg['sp'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['cpu'])) _cpu = pkg['cpu'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['el_string'])) el_string = pkg['el_string'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = pkg['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['epoch'])) epoch = pkg['epoch'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = pkg['allowmaj'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['exists_check'])) exists_check = pkg['exists_check'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['cves'])) cves = pkg['cves'];
    if (reference &&
        ## (no known rpm to check OR known rpm_exists)
        (!exists_check || rpm_exists(rpm:exists_check)) &&
        rpm_check(sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj, cves:cves)) 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, 'python3-waitress');
}

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20 Nov 2025 00:00Current
6.6Medium risk
Vulners AI Score6.6
CVSS 3.17.5 - 9.1
EPSS0.01524
SSVC
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