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Alpine: multiple py3-tornado packages: security update to 6.4.2-r0

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 426136

Description

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

 - There is a LOW severity vulnerability affecting CPython, specifically the 'http.cookies' standard library
 module. When parsing cookies that contained backslashes for quoted characters in the cookie value, the
 parser would use an algorithm with quadratic complexity, resulting in excess CPU resources being used
 while parsing the value. (CVE-2024-7592)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-7592

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 426136

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Published: 5/16/2025

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: 23.73

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-7592

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:N/I:N/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: 8/19/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-7592