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Alpine: gzip: security update to 1.12-r0

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 404851

Description

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

 - An arbitrary file write vulnerability was found in GNU gzip's zgrep utility. When zgrep is applied on the
 attacker's chosen file name (for example, a crafted file name), this can overwrite an attacker's content
 to an arbitrary attacker-selected file. This flaw occurs due to insufficient validation when processing
 filenames with two or more newlines where selected content and the target file names are embedded in
 crafted multi-line file names. This flaw allows a remote, low privileged attacker to force zgrep to write
 arbitrary files on the system. (CVE-2022-1271)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2022-1271

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 404851

Version: Revision 1.40

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 9/8/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.58

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-1271

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/16/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-1271