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Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0276: python3 (ALINUX3-SA-2026:0276)

high Nessus Plugin ID 342086

Synopsis

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2026:0276 advisory.

 Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

 CVE-2026-11940:
 tarfile.extractall() with the 'data' or 'tar' filter could be bypassed by a crafted archive where a hardlink references a symlink stored at a deeper name than the hardlink itself.
 The extraction fallback validated the symlink at it's archived location but recreated it at the hardlink's shallower path, letting a relative target the filter judged contained escape the destination directory.
 This allowed a malicious tar archive to create a symlink pointing outside the destination, enabling out-of-destination file reads or writes. This was an incomplete fix of CVE-2025-4330.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Alibaba Cloud Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://mirrors.aliyun.com/alinux/3/cve/alinux3-sa-20260276.xml

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 342086

File Name: alinux3_sa_2026-0276.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 9/1/2026

Updated: 9/1/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.59

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-11940

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Threat Score: 4.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:platform-python-debug, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:platform-python-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:platform-python, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:python3-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:python3-idle, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:python3-libs, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:python3-test, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:python3-tkinter

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/Alibaba/release, Host/Alibaba/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/28/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/23/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-11940