Alpine: multiple python3 packages: security update to 3.8.7-r1 (deprecated)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 400269

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)

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 400269

Version: Revision 1.27

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/16/2023

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: 6.2

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: 9.1

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/19/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/19/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3177

IAVA: 2021-A-0052-S

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