- Issued:
- 2024-11-05
- Updated:
- 2024-11-05
RHSA-2024:8842 - Moderate: python3.12-urllib3 security update
Synopsis
Moderate: python3.12-urllib3 security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory Moderate
Topic
An update for python3.12-urllib3 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
urllib3 is a powerful, user-friendly HTTP client for Python. urllib3 brings many critical features that are missing from the Python standard libraries: • Thread safety. • Connection pooling. • Client-side SSL/TLS verification. • File uploads with multipart encoding. • Helpers for retrying requests and dealing with HTTP redirects. • Support for gzip, deflate, brotli, and zstd encoding. • Proxy support for HTTP and SOCKS. • 100% test coverage.
Security Fix(es):
- urllib3: proxy-authorization request header is not stripped during cross-origin redirects (CVE-2024-37891)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Solution
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
Affected Products
| Product | Version | Arch |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 | 8 | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Life Cycle | 8.10 | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian | 8 | ppc64le |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Life Cycle | 8.10 | ppc64le |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems | 8 | s390x |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Life Cycle | 8.10 | s390x |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 | 8 | aarch64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Life Cycle | 8.10 | aarch64 |
Updated Packages
- python3.12-urllib3-1.26.19-1.el8_10.noarch.rpm
- python3.12-urllib3-1.26.19-1.el8_10.src.rpm
Fixes
CVEs
References
Additional information
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