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Alpine: dropbear: security update to 2019.78-r1

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 404184

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

 - In OpenSSH 7.9, scp.c in the scp client allows remote SSH servers to bypass intended access restrictions
 via the filename of . or an empty filename. The impact is modifying the permissions of the target
 directory on the client side. (CVE-2018-20685)

 - scp.c in Dropbear before 2020.79 mishandles the filename of . or an empty filename, a related issue to
 CVE-2018-20685. (CVE-2020-36254)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-20685

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-36254

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 404184

Version: Revision 1.27

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

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: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-36254

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/10/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-20685, CVE-2020-36254

BID: 106531