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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-3426: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
May 20, 2021
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Jun 18, 2026

Description

There's a flaw in Python 3's pydoc. A local or adjacent attacker who discovers or is able to convince another local or adjacent user to start a pydoc server could access the server and use it to disclose sensitive information belonging to the other user that they would not normally be able to access. The highest risk of this flaw is to data confidentiality. This flaw affects Python versions before 3.8.9, Python versions before 3.9.3 and Python versions before 3.10.0a7.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-python3
Title
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