RHSA-2024:0214 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for python-werkzeug is now available for Red Hat OpenStack
Platform 17.1 (Wallaby).

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

Werkzeug is a WSGI utility module. It includes a debugger, request and response objects, HTTP utilities to handle entity tags, cache control headers, HTTP dates, cookie handling, file uploads, a URL routing system and a numerous community contributed add-on modules.

Werkzeug is unicode aware and does not enforce a specific template engine, database adapter or a specific way of handling requests. It is useful for end user applications, such as blogs, wikis, and bulletin boards, that need to operate in a wide variety of server environments.

Security Fix(es):

• high resource consumption leading to denial of service (CVE-2023-46136)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page 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 - 2246310 - CVE-2023-46136 python-werkzeug: high resource consumption leading to denial of service

CVEs

• CVE-2023-46136

References

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