RHSA-2023:7438 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for python-gevent is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1.1.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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

gevent is a coroutine-based Python networking library that uses greenlet to provide a high-level synchronous API on top of libevent event loop.

Security Fix(es):

• python-gevent: privilege escalation via a crafted script to the WSGIServer component (CVE-2023-41419)

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

• Red Hat OpenStack 17.1 for RHEL 9 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2240651 - CVE-2023-41419 python-gevent: privilege escalation via a crafted script to the WSGIServer component

CVEs

• CVE-2023-41419

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important