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Alpine: multiple ipmitool packages: security update to 1.8.18-r9

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 405000

Description

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

 - It's been found that multiple functions in ipmitool before 1.8.19 neglect proper checking of the data
 received from a remote LAN party, which may lead to buffer overflows and potentially to remote code
 execution on the ipmitool side. This is especially dangerous if ipmitool is run as a privileged user. This
 problem is fixed in version 1.8.19. (CVE-2020-5208)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-5208

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 405000

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: 6.9

Percentile: 97.36

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-2020-5208

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

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/5/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-5208