Alpine: miniperl, multiple perl packages: security update to 5.14.2-r0 (deprecated)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 401339

Description

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

- Eval injection vulnerability in the Digest module before 1.17 for Perl allows context-dependent attackers
to execute arbitrary commands via the new constructor. (CVE-2011-3597)

See Also

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=688926b9e5cfa7f14e59ab8e8875d5bed5e26880

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=e2e255c03845c49b0e24925cf4b307972b1731f9

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 401339

Version: Revision 1.23

Type: Local

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: 5

Percentile: 95.09

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-3597

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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: 1/31/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/2/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3597

BID: 49911