ALAS-2023-1720

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-42771  

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. (CVE-2021-42771)

ALAS-2023-1720


Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-1720
Advisory Release Date: 2023-03-30 22:50 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-04-05 20:23 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

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. (CVE-2021-42771)


Affected Packages:

python-babel


Issue Correction:
Run yum update python-babel to update your system.

New Packages:
noarch:
    python27-babel-0.9.4-5.1.9.amzn1.noarch
    python26-babel-0.9.4-5.1.9.amzn1.noarch

src:
    python-babel-0.9.4-5.1.9.amzn1.src