Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language that supports modules, classes, exceptions, high-level dynamic data types, and dynamic typing. The python27 packages provide a stable release of Python 2.7 with a number of additional utilities and database connectors for MySQL and PostgreSQL. The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: python2 . Security Fix: * python-urllib3: Cross-host redirect does not remove Authorization header allow for credential exposure * python: Cookie domain check returns incorrect results * python-urllib3: CRLF injection due to not encoding the "\r\n" sequence leading to possible attack on internal service * python-urllib3: Certification mishandle when error should be thrown * python: email.utils.parseaddr wrongly parses email addresses * python-requests: Redirect from HTTPS to HTTP does not remove Authorization header For more details about the security issue, including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page listed in the References section. Additional Changes: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the CentOS 8.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.