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Google: dev-lang/python: security update to 17162.279.34

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 452023

Description

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

 - http.cookiejar.DefaultPolicy.domain_return_ok in Lib/http/cookiejar.py in Python before 3.7.3 does not
 correctly validate the domain: it can be tricked into sending existing cookies to the wrong server. An
 attacker may abuse this flaw by using a server with a hostname that has another valid hostname as a suffix
 (e.g., pythonicexample.com to steal cookies for example.com). When a program uses
 http.cookiejar.DefaultPolicy and tries to do an HTTP connection to an attacker-controlled server, existing
 cookies can be leaked to the attacker. This affects 2.x through 2.7.16, 3.x before 3.4.10, 3.5.x before
 3.5.7, 3.6.x before 3.6.9, and 3.7.x before 3.7.3. (CVE-2018-20852)

Solution

Update the dev-lang/python library and its related packages to version 17162.279.34 or later.

See Also

https://storage.googleapis.com/cos-oval-vulnerability-feed/cos-101.oval.xml.tar.gz

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 452023

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/1/2026

Updated: 10/1/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: MEDIUM

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-2018-20852

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/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: 10/31/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-20852