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Alpine: python2: security update to 2.7.16-r0

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 406736

Description

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

 - Python's elementtree C accelerator failed to initialise Expat's hash salt during initialization. This
 could make it easy to conduct denial of service attacks against Expat by constructing an XML document that
 would cause pathological hash collisions in Expat's internal data structures, consuming large amounts CPU
 and RAM. The vulnerability exists in Python versions 3.7.0, 3.6.0 through 3.6.6, 3.5.0 through 3.5.6,
 3.4.0 through 3.4.9, 2.7.0 through 2.7.15. (CVE-2018-14647)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-14647

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 406736

Version: Revision 1.25

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: 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-2018-14647

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: 9/22/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-14647

BID: 105396