Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-7438-01 - An update for python-gevent is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1.1. Issues addressed include a privilege escalation vulnerability.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1.1 (python-gevent) security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:7438-01
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7438
Issue date: 2023-11-21
Revision: 01
CVE Names: CVE-2023-41419
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Summary:
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:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
CVEs:
CVE-2023-41419
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240651