Alpine: multiple cargo packages, multiple rust packages: security update to 1.55.0-r3 (deprecated)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400030

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- An issue was discovered in the Bidirectional Algorithm in the Unicode Specification through 14.0. It
permits the visual reordering of characters via control sequences, which can be used to craft source code
that renders different logic than the logical ordering of tokens ingested by compilers and interpreters.
Adversaries can leverage this to encode source code for compilers accepting Unicode such that targeted
vulnerabilities are introduced invisibly to human reviewers. NOTE: the Unicode Consortium offers the
following alternative approach to presenting this concern. An issue is noted in the nature of
international text that can affect applications that implement support for The Unicode Standard and the
Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (all versions). Due to text display behavior when text includes left-to-
right and right-to-left characters, the visual order of tokens may be different from their logical order.
Additionally, control characters needed to fully support the requirements of bidirectional text can
further obfuscate the logical order of tokens. Unless mitigated, an adversary could craft source code such
that the ordering of tokens perceived by human reviewers does not match what will be processed by a
compiler/interpreter/etc. The Unicode Consortium has documented this class of vulnerability in its
document, Unicode Technical Report #36, Unicode Security Considerations. The Unicode Consortium also
provides guidance on mitigations for this class of issues in Unicode Technical Standard #39, Unicode
Security Mechanisms, and in Unicode Standard Annex #31, Unicode Identifier and Pattern Syntax. Also, the
BIDI specification allows applications to tailor the implementation in ways that can mitigate misleading
visual reordering in program text; see HL4 in Unicode Standard Annex #9, Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm.
(CVE-2021-42574)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 400030

Version: Revision 1.32

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 1/31/2022

Updated: 9/23/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-42574

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.3

Temporal Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/2/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/1/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-42574

Detections

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