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Alpine: python3: security update to 3.7.7-r0

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 406765

Description

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

 - In Python (CPython) 3.6 through 3.6.10, 3.7 through 3.7.6, and 3.8 through 3.8.1, an insecure dependency
 load upon launch on Windows 7 may result in an attacker's copy of api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll being
 loaded and used instead of the system's copy. Windows 8 and later are unaffected. (CVE-2020-8315)

 - Python 2.7 through 2.7.17, 3.5 through 3.5.9, 3.6 through 3.6.10, 3.7 through 3.7.6, and 3.8 through 3.8.1
 allows an HTTP server to conduct Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attacks against a client
 because of urllib.request.AbstractBasicAuthHandler catastrophic backtracking. (CVE-2020-8492)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-8315

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-8492

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 406765

Version: Revision 1.25

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

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: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8315

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/28/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-8315, CVE-2020-8492

IAVA: 2020-A-0103-S