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Alpine: multiple pyc packages, multiple python3 packages: security update to 3.8.5-r0

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 424428

Description

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

 - In Lib/tarfile.py in Python through 3.8.3, an attacker is able to craft a TAR archive leading to an
 infinite loop when opened by tarfile.open, because _proc_pax lacks header validation. (CVE-2019-20907)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2019-20907

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 424428

Version: Revision 1.9

Type: Local

Published: 4/4/2025

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: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-20907

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/13/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-20907

IAVA: 2020-A-0340-S