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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2021-42771: Security patch for babel (ALAS-2023-2010)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2021-42771: Security patch for babel (ALAS-2023-2010)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
10/20/2021
Created
05/05/2023
Added
04/06/2023
Modified
04/06/2023

Description

Babel.Locale in Babel before 2.9.1 allows attackers to load arbitrary locale .dat files (containing serialized Python objects) via directory traversal, leading to code execution.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-babel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python-babel

References

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