CVE-2021-42343 Affecting py3-dask package, versions <2022.2.0-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.98% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE324-PY3DASK-17302695
  • published11 Jun 2026
  • disclosed26 Oct 2021

Introduced: 26 Oct 2021

CVE-2021-42343  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.24 py3-dask to version 2022.2.0-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream py3-dask package and not the py3-dask package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.24 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in the Dask distributed package before 2021.10.0 for Python. Single machine Dask clusters started with dask.distributed.LocalCluster or dask.distributed.Client (which defaults to using LocalCluster) would mistakenly configure their respective Dask workers to listen on external interfaces (typically with a randomly selected high port) rather than only on localhost. A Dask cluster created using this method (when running on a machine that has an applicable port exposed) could be used by a sophisticated attacker to achieve remote code execution.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1