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Alpine: python3: security update to 3.6.9-r2

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 406762

Description

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

 - The documentation XML-RPC server in Python through 2.7.16, 3.x through 3.6.9, and 3.7.x through 3.7.4 has
 XSS via the server_title field. This occurs in Lib/DocXMLRPCServer.py in Python 2.x, and in
 Lib/xmlrpc/server.py in Python 3.x. If set_server_title is called with untrusted input, arbitrary
 JavaScript can be delivered to clients that visit the http URL for this server. (CVE-2019-16935)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2019-16935

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 406762

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: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-16935

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/28/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-16935