Setuptools: Denial of Service

Background Setuptools is a manager for Python packages. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in Setuptools. See the impact field. Impact An inefficiency in a regular expression may end in a denial of service if an user is fetching malicious HTML from a package in PyPI or a custom...

MGASA-2024-0096 Updated python3, python packages fix security vulnerabilities

The tempfile.TemporaryDirectory class would dereference symlinks during cleanup of permissions-related errors. This means users which can run privileged programs are potentially able to modify permissions of files referenced by symlinks in some circumstances. CVE-2023-6597 The zipfile module is...

New Malicious PyPI Packages Caught Using Covert Side-Loading Tactics

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two malicious packages on the Python Package Index PyPI repository that were found leveraging a technique called DLL side-loading to circumvent detection by security software and run malicious code. The packages, named NP6HelperHttptest and NP6HelperHttpe...

PyCryptodome < 3.19.1 Side Channel Leak

The version of PyCryptodome installed on the remote host is prior to 3.19.1. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability. - A side-channel leakage with OAEP decryption could be exploited to carry out a Manger attack. CVE-2023-52323 Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead...

BlazeStealer Malware Uncovered in Python Packages on PyPI

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Python Package Index PyPI repository is infiltrated with number of malicious python packages. These packages masquerade as obfuscation tools, however they harbor BlazeStealer malware, which initiates a...

Researchers Uncover Undetectable Crypto Mining Technique on Azure Automation

Cybersecurity researchers have developed what's the first fully undetectable cloud-based cryptocurrency miner leveraging the Microsoft Azure Automation service without racking up any charges. Cybersecurity company SafeBreach said it discovered three different methods to run the miner, including o...

Beware, Developers: BlazeStealer Malware Discovered in Python Packages on PyPI

A new set of malicious Python packages has slithered their way to the Python Package Index PyPI repository with the ultimate aim of stealing sensitive information from compromised developer systems. The packages masquerade as seemingly innocuous obfuscation tools, but harbor a piece of malware...

Rocky Linux 8 : python27:2.7 (RLSA-2021:1761)

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2021:1761 advisory. - http.client in Python 3.x before 3.5.10, 3.6.x before 3.6.12, 3.7.x before 3.7.9, and 3.8.x before 3.8.5 allows CRLF injection if the attacker control...

SUSE SLES15: libprotobuf-lite20 / python2-cryptography / python2-psutil / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:2783-2)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:2783-2 advisory. grpc: - Update in SLE-15 bsc1197726, bsc1144068 protobuf: - Fix a potential DoS issue in protobuf-cpp and protobuf-python, CVE-2022-1941,...

SUSE-SU-2023:2783-2 Security update for grpc, protobuf, python-Deprecated, python-PyGithub, python-aiocontextvars, python-avro, python-bcrypt, python-cryptography, python-cryptography-vectors, python-google-api-core, python-googleapis-common-protos, python-grpcio-gcp, python-humanfriendly, python-jsondiff, python-knack, python-opencensus, python-opencensus-context, python-opencensus-ext-threading, python-opentelemetry-api, python-psutil, python-pytest-asyncio, python-requests, python-websocket-client, python-websockets

This update for grpc, protobuf, python-Deprecated, python-PyGithub, python-aiocontextvars, python-avro, python-bcrypt, python-cryptography, python-cryptography-vectors, python-google-api-core, python-googleapis-common-protos, python-grpcio-gcp, python-humanfriendly, python-jsondiff, python-knack,...

Malicious code in aliababcloud-tea-openapi (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: checkmarx 644686188e6f43d2dc595074d7644cba060e6a91b8de18713f4b551a76a6c3b7 Malicious Typosquatting packages campaign targeting developers, steals cloud service credentials Source: google-open-source-security...

North Korean Hackers Deploy New Malicious Python Packages in PyPI Repository

Three additional rogue Python packages have been discovered in the Package Index PyPI repository as part of an ongoing malicious software supply chain campaign called VMConnect, with signs pointing to the involvement of North Korean state-sponsored threat actors. The findings come from...

Malicious code in python-aliyun-sdk-core (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: checkmarx 63f6387d6bfe7ae582be4478cf6a42a8104b44ea50b22489f5217ba2bfb3ce39 Malicious Typosquatting packages campaign targeting developers, steals cloud service credentials Source: google-open-source-security...

RHEL 8 : python39:3.9 and python39-devel:3.9 (RHSA-2023:4004)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:4004 advisory. Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language, which includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic dat...

SUSE-SU-2023:2783-1 Security update for grpc, protobuf, python-Deprecated, python-PyGithub, python-aiocontextvars, python-avro, python-bcrypt, python-cryptography, python-cryptography-vectors, python-google-api-core, python-googleapis-common-protos, python-grpcio-gcp, python-humanfriendly, python-jsondiff, python-knack, python-opencensus, python-opencensus-context, python-opencensus-ext-threading, python-opentelemetry-api, python-psutil, python-pytest-asyncio, python-requests, python-websocket-client, python-websockets

This update for grpc, protobuf, python-Deprecated, python-PyGithub, python-aiocontextvars, python-avro, python-bcrypt, python-cryptography, python-cryptography-vectors, python-google-api-core, python-googleapis-common-protos, python-grpcio-gcp, python-humanfriendly, python-jsondiff, python-knack,...

New Supply Chain Attack Exploits Abandoned S3 Buckets to Distribute Malicious Binaries

In what's a new kind of software supply chain attack aimed at open source projects, it has emerged that threat actors could seize control of expired Amazon S3 buckets to serve rogue binaries without altering the modules themselves. "Malicious binaries steal the user IDs, passwords, local machine...

MGASA-2023-0186 Updated python-reportlab packages fix security vulnerability

Updates python3-reportlab includes a security fix and other minor bug fixes. See references for details...

[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: python-setuptools-59.6.0-4.fc36

Setuptools is a collection of enhancements to the Python distutils that allow you to more easily build and distribute Python packages, especially ones that have dependencies on other packages. This package also contains the runtime components of setuptools, necessary to execute the software that...

MGASA-2023-0140 Updated python-certifi packages fix security vulnerability

Disable bundled Trustcor root cerificate signatures generated after Wednesday November 30 00:00:00 2022. CVE-2022-23491...

NewStart CGSL CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05 : python Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2023-0008)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05, has python packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - http.client in Python 3.x before 3.5.10, 3.6.x before 3.6.12, 3.7.x before 3.7.9, and 3.8.x before 3.8.5 allows CRLF injection if the attacker...