RHSA-2024:0300 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for python-urllib3 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support.

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

The python-urllib3 package provides the Python HTTP module with connection pooling and file POST abilities.

Security Fix(es):

• python-urllib3: Cookie request header isn't stripped during cross-origin redirects (CVE-2023-43804)
• urllib3: Request body not stripped after redirect from 303 status changes request method to GET (CVE-2023-45803)

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 Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.6 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2242493 - CVE-2023-43804 python-urllib3: Cookie request header isn't stripped during cross-origin redirects
• BZ - 2246840 - CVE-2023-45803 urllib3: Request body not stripped after redirect from 303 status changes request method to GET

CVEs

• CVE-2023-43804
• CVE-2023-45803

References

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