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ALSA-2021:4201 Not scored

Moderate: babel security and bug fix update

Babel provides tools to build and work with gettext message catalogs, and a Python interface to the CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository), providing access to various locale display names, localized number and date formatting, etc. Security Fix(es): * python-babel: Relative path traversal allows attacker to load arbitrary locale files and execute arbitrary code (CVE-2021-20095, CVE-2021-42771) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Additional Changes: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Exploit probability Not scored
Published November 9, 2021
Required by Not available
Last source change February 4, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

AlmaLinux:8 python3-babel

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

related CVE-2021-20095

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities ALSA-2021:4201

Babel provides tools to build and work with gettext message catalogs, and a Python interface to the CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository), providing access to various locale display names, localized number and date formatting, etc. Security Fix(es): * python-babel: Relative path traversal allows attacker to load arbitrary locale files and execute arbitrary code (CVE-2021-20095, CVE-2021-42771) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Additional Changes: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

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05 / REFERENCES

Further evidence