Removing python 2.7.5 from CentOS 7

[phil.e]

Nessus is flagging the python 2.7.5 version that's in our CentOS 7.9 systems as a "critical" finding.

When I tried to remove it on a test system with yum, it generated a list of dependencies a mile long.

Is it possible to remove it, or is it too baked into the core of the system to get rid of it?

[tunk]

Don't know about this, but in general:
https://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#A_P ... oits_in_it

[TrevorH]

You cannot remove python 2.7.5 from CentOS 7 as it's used by all the system tools like yum. You can safely ignore the nessus finding since python 2.7.5 is maintained by Red Hat not by python.

[phil.e]

Thank you!