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Alpine: multiple pyc packages: security update to 3.12.10-r1

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 427740

Description

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

 - There is an issue in CPython when using `bytes.decode("unicode_escape", error="ignore|replace")`. If you
 are not using the "unicode_escape" encoding or an error handler your usage is not affected. To work-around
 this issue you may stop using the error= handler and instead wrap the bytes.decode() call in a try-except
 catching the DecodeError. (CVE-2025-4516)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2025-4516

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 427740

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Published: 5/21/2025

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: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-4516

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Threat Score: 2.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/15/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-4516