Our security scan flags the image that it has old python version related packges. Could you clean up old python packages which is having EOL ? i.e Remove python 2.x and python 3.6.x related libs.
yum list | grep python3-libs
Tested in below version as well.
docker run --rm -it --entrypoint /bin/sh confluentinc/[cp-kafka-connect-base](https://confluentinc.atlassian.net/browse/CP-kafka-connect-base):7.7.1
verified latest version and it is still contain python 3.6 which is no longer supported
sh-4.4# ls /lib/python3.*
/lib/python3.6:
site-packages
/lib/python3.9:
site-packages
sh-4.4#