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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2020:1916-01 Moderate Python-Pip Update

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Calendar Grey April 28, 2020
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The security bulletin from Red Hat outlines a new update for python-pip, which carries a moderate security concern, along with a series of patches.
An update for python-pip is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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

Summary

pip is a package management system used to install and manage software packages written in Python. Many packages can be found in the Python Package Index (PyPI). pip is a recursive acronym that can stand for either "Pip Installs Packages" or "Pip Installs Python".
Security Fix(es):
* python-urllib3: Cross-host redirect does not remove Authorization header allow for credential exposure (CVE-2018-20060)
* python-urllib3: CRLF injection due to not encoding the ' ' sequence leading to possible attack on internal service (CVE-2019-11236)
* python-urllib3: Certification mishandle when error should be thrown (CVE-2019-11324)
* python-requests: Redirect from HTTPS to HTTP does not remove Authorization header (CVE-2018-18074)
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.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory DoS Red Hat Enterprise Linux Moderate credential exposure python-pip

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-18074 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-20060 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11236 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11324 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.2_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
noarch: python3-pip-9.0.3-16.el8.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: python-pip-9.0.3-16.el8.src.rpm
noarch: platform-python-pip-9.0.3-16.el8.noarch.rpm python3-pip-wheel-9.0.3-16.el8.noarch.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:1916-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1916
Issue date: 2020-04-28

Topic

An update for python-pip is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory DoS Red Hat Enterprise Linux Moderate credential exposure python-pip

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1643829 - CVE-2018-18074 python-requests: Redirect from HTTPS to HTTP does not remove Authorization header

1649153 - CVE-2018-20060 python-urllib3: Cross-host redirect does not remove Authorization header allow for credential exposure

1700824 - CVE-2019-11236 python-urllib3: CRLF injection due to not encoding the '

' sequence leading to possible attack on internal service

1702473 - CVE-2019-11324 python-urllib3: Certification mishandle when error should be thrown

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