Alpine: urllib3: security update to 1.26.16-r0 (deprecated)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 401377

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- urllib3 is a user-friendly HTTP client library for Python. urllib3 doesn't treat the `Cookie` HTTP header
special or provide any helpers for managing cookies over HTTP, that is the responsibility of the user.
However, it is possible for a user to specify a `Cookie` header and unknowingly leak information via HTTP
redirects to a different origin if that user doesn't disable redirects explicitly. This issue has been
patched in urllib3 version 1.26.17 or 2.0.5. (CVE-2023-43804)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 401377

Version: Revision 1.30

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 10/5/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.61

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-43804

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/5/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/4/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-43804

Detections

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