CVE Catalog

CVE-2021-3426

MediumCVSS 5.7
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

High risk
1.88%

79th percentile - higher than 79% of all known CVEs

Summary

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.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can access sensitive data of other users, which may lead to breach of confidentiality of information.

Recommendation

Update Python to version 3.8.9, 3.9.3, or 3.10.0a7 or later, which includes a fix for this issue.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS