vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2022-48565: Security patch for python27 (ALAS-2023-1880)

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Aug 22, 2023
Added
Nov 4, 2023
Modified
May 21, 2025

Description

An XML External Entity (XXE) issue was discovered in Python through 3.9.1. The plistlib module no longer accepts entity declarations in XML plist files to avoid XML vulnerabilities.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-python27
Title
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