Alpine: multiple ghostscript packages: security update to 9.54.0-r0 (deprecated)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400131

Description

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

- A trivial sandbox (enabled with the `-dSAFER` option) escape flaw was found in the ghostscript interpreter
by injecting a specially crafted pipe command. This flaw allows a specially crafted document to execute
arbitrary commands on the system in the context of the ghostscript interpreter. The highest threat from
this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability. (CVE-2021-3781)

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 400131

Version: Revision 1.24

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7

Percentile: 98.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3781

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.9

Temporal Score: 8.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/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: 9/10/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/23/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3781

IAVB: 2021-B-0055

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