Alpine: multiple pyc packages, multiple python3 packages: security update to 3.6.8-r1

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 424422

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

- An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the X509 certificate parser of Python.org Python
2.7.11 / 3.6.6. A specially crafted X509 certificate can cause a NULL pointer dereference, resulting in a
denial of service. An attacker can initiate or accept TLS connections using crafted certificates to
trigger this vulnerability. (CVE-2019-5010)

- An issue was discovered in Python through 2.7.16, 3.x through 3.5.7, 3.6.x through 3.6.9, and 3.7.x
through 3.7.4. The email module wrongly parses email addresses that contain multiple @ characters. An
application that uses the email module and implements some kind of checks on the From/To headers of a
message could be tricked into accepting an email address that should be denied. An attack may be the same
as in CVE-2019-11340; however, this CVE applies to Python more generally. (CVE-2019-16056)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 424422

Version: Revision 1.9

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 4/4/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 95.09

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-16056

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:H/I:N/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: 1/15/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-16056, CVE-2019-5010

BID: 106636

IAVA: 2021-A-0263-S

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