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Alpine: python3: security update to 3.8.7-r1

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 406774

Description

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

 - Python 3.x through 3.9.1 has a buffer overflow in PyCArg_repr in _ctypes/callproc.c, which may lead to
 remote code execution in certain Python applications that accept floating-point numbers as untrusted
 input, as demonstrated by a 1e300 argument to c_double.from_param. This occurs because sprintf is used
 unsafely. (CVE-2021-3177)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2021-3177

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 406774

Version: Revision 1.29

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3177

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/19/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3177

IAVA: 2021-A-0052-S