Alpine: python2: security update to 2.7.16-r2 (deprecated)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400437

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

- An issue was discovered in Python through 2.7.16, 3.x through 3.5.7, 3.6.x through 3.6.9, and 3.7.x
through 3.7.4. The email module wrongly parses email addresses that contain multiple @ characters. An
application that uses the email module and implements some kind of checks on the From/To headers of a
message could be tricked into accepting an email address that should be denied. An attack may be the same
as in CVE-2019-11340; however, this CVE applies to Python more generally. (CVE-2019-16056)

- The documentation XML-RPC server in Python through 2.7.16, 3.x through 3.6.9, and 3.7.x through 3.7.4 has
XSS via the server_title field. This occurs in Lib/DocXMLRPCServer.py in Python 2.x, and in
Lib/xmlrpc/server.py in Python 3.x. If set_server_title is called with untrusted input, arbitrary
JavaScript can be delivered to clients that visit the http URL for this server. (CVE-2019-16935)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 400437

Version: Revision 1.25

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-16056

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/17/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/6/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-16056, CVE-2019-16935

Detections

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