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Alpine: dropbear: security update to 2020.79-r0

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 404185

Description

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

 - 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)

See Also

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 404185

Version: Revision 1.32

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 1/1/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 1.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-20685

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

BID: 106531