diff --git a/base/redhat-8/Dockerfile b/base/redhat-8/Dockerfile
index 2f71cb49..d839e582 100644
--- a/base/redhat-8/Dockerfile
+++ b/base/redhat-8/Dockerfile
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ LABEL name="splunk" \
 ARG BUSYBOX_URL
 
 ENV BUSYBOX_URL=${BUSYBOX_URL} \
-    PYTHON_VERSION=3.7.16 \
-    PYTHON_GPG_KEY_ID=0D96DF4D4110E5C43FBFB17F2D347EA6AA65421D
+    PYTHON_VERSION=3.9.19 \
+    PYTHON_GPG_KEY_ID=E3FF2839C048B25C084DEBE9B26995E310250568
 
 COPY install.sh /install.sh
 
diff --git a/base/redhat-8/install.sh b/base/redhat-8/install.sh
index 63e7950c..2763a84a 100755
--- a/base/redhat-8/install.sh
+++ b/base/redhat-8/install.sh
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ set -e
 
 # Generate UTF-8 char map and locale
 # Reinstalling local English def for now, removed in minimal image: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1665251
-microdnf -y --nodocs install glibc-langpack-en
+# Comment below install until glibc update is available in minimal image: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2722
+#microdnf -y --nodocs install glibc-langpack-en
 
 # Currently there is no access to the UTF-8 char map. The following command is commented out until
 # the base container can generate the locale.
@@ -74,9 +75,12 @@ ln -sf /usr/bin/pip${PY_SHORT} /usr/bin/pip
 
 # Install splunk-ansible dependencies
 cd /
-/usr/bin/python3.7 -m pip install --upgrade pip
+/usr/bin/python3.9 -m pip install --upgrade pip
 pip -q --no-cache-dir install --upgrade "requests_unixsocket<2.29" "requests<2.29" six wheel Mako "urllib3<2.0.0" certifi jmespath future avro cryptography lxml protobuf setuptools ansible
 
+# Avoid vulnerability on old pip version
+/usr/libexec/platform-python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+
 # Remove tests packaged in python libs
 find /usr/lib/ -depth \( -type d -a -not -wholename '*/ansible/plugins/test' -a \( -name test -o -name tests -o -name idle_test \) \) -exec rm -rf '{}' \;
 find /usr/lib/ -depth \( -type f -a -name '*.pyc' -o -name '*.pyo' -o -name '*.a' \) -exec rm -rf '{}' \;
diff --git a/py23-image/redhat-8/Dockerfile b/py23-image/redhat-8/Dockerfile
index 89676579..c2dd5471 100644
--- a/py23-image/redhat-8/Dockerfile
+++ b/py23-image/redhat-8/Dockerfile
@@ -3,10 +3,12 @@ FROM ${SPLUNK_PRODUCT}-redhat-8:latest
 USER root
 
 RUN microdnf -y --nodocs update \
-    && microdnf -y --nodocs install python2-pip python2-devel \
+    && microdnf -y --nodocs install python2 \
+    && pip2 install --upgrade pip \
     && pip2 --no-cache-dir install requests pyyaml jmespath \
-    && ln -sf /usr/bin/python3.7 /usr/bin/python3 \
-    && ln -sf /usr/bin/pip3.7 /usr/bin/pip3 \
-    && ln -sf /usr/bin/python3.7 /usr/bin/python \
-    && ln -sf /usr/bin/pip3.7 /usr/bin/pip \
-    && pip3 install --upgrade ansible==3.4.0 requests==2.25.1 pyyaml==5.4.1 jmespath==0.10.0
+    && ln -sf /usr/bin/python3.9 /usr/bin/python3 \
+    && ln -sf /usr/bin/pip3.9 /usr/bin/pip3 \
+    && ln -sf /usr/bin/python3.9 /usr/bin/python \
+    && ln -sf /usr/bin/pip3.9 /usr/bin/pip \
+    && pip3 install --upgrade requests==2.25.1 pyyaml==5.4.1 jmespath==0.10.0 \
+    && sed -i '/^\[defaults\]/a\interpreter_python = /usr/bin/python3' /opt/ansible/ansible.cfg
diff --git a/tests/executor.py b/tests/executor.py
index c6026adc..a34ee162 100644
--- a/tests/executor.py
+++ b/tests/executor.py
@@ -101,9 +101,11 @@ def get_container_logs(self, container_id):
         stream = self.client.logs(container_id, stream=True)
         output = ""
         for char in stream:
-            if "Ansible playbook complete" in char:
-                break
+            if type(char) is bytes:
+                char = char.decode("utf-8")
             output += char
+            if "Ansible playbook complete" in output:
+                break
         return output
 
     def cleanup_files(self, files):
@@ -148,6 +150,8 @@ def wait_for_containers(self, count, label=None, name=None, timeout=500):
                 # The healthcheck on our Splunk image is not reliable - resorting to checking logs
                 if container.get("Labels", {}).get("maintainer") == "support@splunk.com":
                     output = self.client.logs(container["Id"], tail=5)
+                    if type(output) is bytes:
+                        output = output.decode("utf-8")
                     if "unable to" in output or "denied" in output or "splunkd.pid file is unreadable" in output:
                         self.logger.error("Container {} did not start properly, last log line: {}".format(container["Names"][0], output))
                     elif "Ansible playbook complete" in output:
@@ -231,7 +235,9 @@ def extract_json(self, container_name):
         retries = 15
         for i in range(retries):
             exec_command = self.client.exec_create(container_name, "cat /opt/container_artifact/ansible_inventory.json")
-            json_data = self.client.exec_start(exec_command)
+            json_data = self.client.exec_start(exec_command["Id"])
+            if type(json_data) is bytes:
+                json_data = json_data.decode("utf-8")
             if "No such file or directory" in json_data:
                 time.sleep(5)
             else: 
@@ -380,3 +386,9 @@ def check_dmc_groups(self, splunkd_port, num_idx, num_sh, num_cm, num_lm):
         assert status == 200
         output = json.loads(content)
         assert len(output["entry"][0]["content"]["member"]) == num_sh
+
+    def check_uds_socket_file(self, container_name):
+        # Check for cli.socket file
+        exec_command = self.client.exec_create(container_name, "ls /opt/splunkforwarder/var/run/splunk", user="splunk")
+        file_output = self.client.exec_start(exec_command)
+        return "cli.socket" in file_output.decode("utf-8")
diff --git a/tests/requirements.txt b/tests/requirements.txt
index 0fff1856..6b5520e7 100644
--- a/tests/requirements.txt
+++ b/tests/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 pytest==4.4.0
 pyrsistent==0.16.1
-requests
+requests==2.31.0
 docker
 PyYAML
 docker-compose
diff --git a/tests/test_single_splunk_image.py b/tests/test_single_splunk_image.py
index 0743fe1f..48e788dd 100644
--- a/tests/test_single_splunk_image.py
+++ b/tests/test_single_splunk_image.py
@@ -2778,3 +2778,33 @@ def test_compose_1hf_splunk_add(self):
         assert self.check_splunkd("admin", self.password)
         # Check Splunkd using the new users
         assert self.check_splunkd("jerry", "seinfeld")
+
+    def test_compose_1uf_uds(self):
+        container_name = self.generate_random_string()
+        self.DIR = os.path.join(self.FIXTURES_DIR, container_name)
+        cid = None
+        try:
+            cid = self.client.create_container(self.UF_IMAGE_NAME, tty=True, command="start",
+                                               volumes=["/tmp/defaults/"], name=container_name,
+                                               environment={"DEBUG": "true", "SPLUNK_START_ARGS": "--accept-license",
+                                                            "SPLUNK_PASSWORD": "Changeme", "ENABLE_TCP_MODE": "false"},
+                                               host_config=self.client.create_host_config(binds=[
+                                                   os.path.join(self.FIXTURES_DIR, container_name) + ":/tmp/defaults/"])
+                                               )
+            cid = cid.get("Id")
+            self.client.start(cid)
+            assert self.wait_for_containers(1, name=container_name)
+            output = self.get_container_logs(cid)
+            assert "Allows UDS" in output
+            assert self.check_uds_socket_file(container_name)
+        except Exception as e:
+            self.logger.error(e)
+            raise e
+        finally:
+            if cid:
+                self.client.remove_container(cid, v=True, force=True)
+            try:
+                os.remove(os.path.join(self.DIR, "default.yml"))
+                os.rmdir(self.DIR)
+            except OSError:
+                pass