diff --git a/bitnami/express/4/debian-10/Dockerfile b/bitnami/express/4/debian-10/Dockerfile
index e099d4fafb86..49be70a12184 100644
--- a/bitnami/express/4/debian-10/Dockerfile
+++ b/bitnami/express/4/debian-10/Dockerfile
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ ENV OS_ARCH="amd64" \
 COPY prebuildfs /
 # Install required system packages and dependencies
 RUN install_packages acl ca-certificates curl gzip libbz2-1.0 libc6 libcom-err2 libcurl4 libffi6 libgcc1 libgcrypt20 libgmp10 libgnutls30 libgpg-error0 libgssapi-krb5-2 libhogweed4 libidn2-0 libk5crypto3 libkeyutils1 libkrb5-3 libkrb5support0 libldap-2.4-2 liblzma5 libncursesw6 libnettle6 libnghttp2-14 libp11-kit0 libpsl5 libreadline7 librtmp1 libsasl2-2 libsqlite3-0 libssh2-1 libssl1.1 libstdc++6 libtasn1-6 libtinfo6 libunistring2 procps sudo tar zlib1g
-RUN . /opt/bitnami/scripts/libcomponent.sh && component_unpack "python" "3.8.12-34" --checksum 68e160a809f44c15722afba7efbdce45c3347fd7c2714f1f1a4461fc2b0731fb
+RUN . /opt/bitnami/scripts/libcomponent.sh && component_unpack "python" "3.8.12-35" --checksum 338b60596e8a45b8a55ab2831bcc05a804d423da70c296e737c41616ab11f104
 RUN . /opt/bitnami/scripts/libcomponent.sh && component_unpack "node" "14.19.0-3" --checksum d1c0e36b98ba6464fcf517c50d35d212d8bf7626cd99838f361bbe1c47319e5e
 RUN . /opt/bitnami/scripts/libcomponent.sh && component_unpack "sequelize-cli" "5.5.1-7" --checksum 6a21abf8f11aee37388c7f4edb087b0833d8f618d6855fa7cff65ff6e9a7feaa
 RUN . /opt/bitnami/scripts/libcomponent.sh && component_unpack "git" "2.35.1-4" --checksum e5feed054f6c6e0497502e5c0551070241f543966491e962ce1f51780f6b170e
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ COPY rootfs /
 RUN mkdir -p /dist /app /.npm /.config /.cache /.local && chmod g+rwX /dist /app /.npm /.config /.cache /.local
 RUN /opt/bitnami/scripts/express/postunpack.sh
 ENV BITNAMI_APP_NAME="express" \
-    BITNAMI_IMAGE_VERSION="4.17.3-debian-10-r7" \
+    BITNAMI_IMAGE_VERSION="4.17.3-debian-10-r8" \
     PATH="/opt/bitnami/python/bin:/opt/bitnami/node/bin:/opt/bitnami/sequelize-cli/bin:/opt/bitnami/git/bin:/opt/bitnami/bower/bin:/opt/bitnami/common/bin:/opt/bitnami/express/bin:$PATH"
 
 EXPOSE 3000
diff --git a/bitnami/express/4/debian-10/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/.bitnami_components.json b/bitnami/express/4/debian-10/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/.bitnami_components.json
index 4e13635804e0..b3ceed13ef5b 100644
--- a/bitnami/express/4/debian-10/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/.bitnami_components.json
+++ b/bitnami/express/4/debian-10/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/.bitnami_components.json
@@ -43,10 +43,10 @@
     },
     "python": {
         "arch": "amd64",
-        "digest": "68e160a809f44c15722afba7efbdce45c3347fd7c2714f1f1a4461fc2b0731fb",
+        "digest": "338b60596e8a45b8a55ab2831bcc05a804d423da70c296e737c41616ab11f104",
         "distro": "debian-10",
         "type": "NAMI",
-        "version": "3.8.12-34"
+        "version": "3.8.12-35"
     },
     "sequelize-cli": {
         "arch": "amd64",
diff --git a/bitnami/express/4/debian-10/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libfs.sh b/bitnami/express/4/debian-10/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libfs.sh
index 1b504b1df458..21b964ff1cf4 100644
--- a/bitnami/express/4/debian-10/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libfs.sh
+++ b/bitnami/express/4/debian-10/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libfs.sh
@@ -74,8 +74,9 @@ is_dir_empty() {
 #   boolean
 #########################
 is_mounted_dir_empty() {
-    local dir="${1:?missing directory}"
-
+    local -r path="${1:?missing directory}"
+    # Calculate real path in order to avoid issues with symlinks
+    local -r dir="$(realpath "$path")"
     if is_dir_empty "$dir" || find "$dir" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -not -name ".snapshot" -not -name "lost+found" -exec false {} +; then
         true
     else
diff --git a/bitnami/express/README.md b/bitnami/express/README.md
index bc84cd6f263d..a5e8a12d88d8 100644
--- a/bitnami/express/README.md
+++ b/bitnami/express/README.md
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ $ docker-compose up
 Learn more about the Bitnami tagging policy and the difference between rolling tags and immutable tags [in our documentation page](https://docs.bitnami.com/tutorials/understand-rolling-tags-containers/).
 
 
-* [`4`, `4-debian-10`, `4.17.3`, `4.17.3-debian-10-r7`, `latest` (4/debian-10/Dockerfile)](https://github.com/bitnami/bitnami-docker-express/blob/4.17.3-debian-10-r7/4/debian-10/Dockerfile)
+* [`4`, `4-debian-10`, `4.17.3`, `4.17.3-debian-10-r8`, `latest` (4/debian-10/Dockerfile)](https://github.com/bitnami/bitnami-docker-express/blob/4.17.3-debian-10-r8/4/debian-10/Dockerfile)
 
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