Alpine: multiple mrxvt packages: security update to 0.5.4-r8 (deprecated)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400212

Description

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

- rxvt-unicode 9.22, rxvt 2.7.10, mrxvt 0.5.4, and Eterm 0.9.7 allow (potentially remote) code execution
because of improper handling of certain escape sequences (ESC G Q). A response is terminated by a newline.
(CVE-2021-33477)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 400212

Version: Revision 1.23

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.58

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-33477

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/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: 5/31/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/20/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-33477

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