Moderate: python-pip security update

Synopsis

Moderate: python-pip security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

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 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

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 '\r\n' 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.

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 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 1643829 - CVE-2018-18074 python-requests: Redirect from HTTPS to HTTP does not remove Authorization header
• BZ - 1649153 - CVE-2018-20060 python-urllib3: Cross-host redirect does not remove Authorization header allow for credential exposure
• BZ - 1700824 - CVE-2019-11236 python-urllib3: CRLF injection due to not encoding the '\r\n' sequence leading to possible attack on internal service
• BZ - 1702473 - CVE-2019-11324 python-urllib3: Certification mishandle when error should be thrown

CVEs

• CVE-2018-18074
• CVE-2018-20060
• CVE-2019-11236
• CVE-2019-11324

References

• 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